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A chain that stopped and will not start again on its own.
§Why this is written down rather than inferred
Every other failure in the system leaves a mark somebody can point at: a failed run, a timeout, a help request. A stall leaves none. Every run in the chain succeeded — the tester reported, the reviewer reported — and then the publisher never woke, because the barrier it was waiting behind could no longer be completed.
Read back from history, that chain is indistinguishable from one that finished. The runs all
say succeeded and nothing says the work never happened. So the moment the Tower gives up on
a rendezvous, it says so in a place that outlives the process, and the dashboard reads it.
That is the whole reason this type exists: silent permanent stalling is the worst outcome in this system, and the only thing worse than a factory that stops is one that stops quietly.
Structs§
- Stall
- A chain the Tower has given up on, and why.