fix: uloop compile no longer brings the Editor to the front while it waits for compilation to start

[hatayama]

Summary

• uloop compile no longer brings the Unity Editor to the front while it waits for compilation to start. The window order the user has stays as it is for the whole status wait.

Why

• The rescue (feat: focus Unity when a compile stalls before compilation starts #2341) brought the Editor to the front when no compile activity was seen in the first ten seconds. It existed because a background Editor was throttled by macOS and did not start compiling.
• That cause is gone: since ADR 0012, the Editor holds a macOS activity while a command runs, and the compile command's work falls inside it.
• What remained was a false trigger. On a large project, a full recompile blocks the Editor's main thread in the asset refresh, so status polls go unanswered for more than ten seconds. The threshold passed before any activity was seen, and a healthy Editor was pulled to the front while the compile went on to succeed.
• ADR 0012 already lists "bring the Editor to the front" as a rejected alternative.

Behaviour change

Status answers in the first 10 s	Threshold reached	Before	After
Answers, no activity	Before the wait deadline	Brought the Editor to the front once and restored the previous app when the wait ended	Nothing
No answer (polls keep failing)	Before the wait deadline	Same as above (the false trigger on large projects)	Nothing. The stderr hint after 30 s of unanswered status polls is unchanged
Answers with activity	—	Not brought to the front	Unchanged
No activity / no answer	After the wait deadline	Not brought to the front	Unchanged

Changes

• The status wait's focus controller, its restore on exit, the start-stall threshold, and the activity tracking that only fed it are removed. The wait now has no focus dependency, so there is no path from it to bringing the Editor to the front.
• The compile_start_stall focus reason is removed.
• The tests for the removed behaviour (five focus tests, the activity classification test, and the focus probe helper) are removed. No replacement test is added: the wait's dependencies no longer carry a focus hook, so the behaviour cannot come back without a type change. The remaining status-wait tests (timeout, cancel, lost request, interim report) still pass, which shows the rest of the loop is unchanged.
• ADR 0012 gains one line under Consequences recording that this rescue is gone.

Verification

Run in cli/project-runner:

• gofmt -l . — no output; go vet ./... — clean; golangci-lint run ./... — 0 issues; golangci-lint run -c ../.golangci-complexity.yml ./... — 0 issues.
• go test ./internal/projectrunner/ -count=1 -run 'TestWaitForCompileCompletion|TestRunCompile|TestFreshCompile|TestPausePointRecoveryCompile' — ok.
• go test ./... -count=1 — everything passes except TestSendWithTransientConnectionRetryAbortsOnRefusedConnect, which cannot bind a Unix socket inside the sandboxed shell used for this change (bind: operation not permitted) and does not touch this code. With that one test skipped, the module reports ok.
• Coverage (/cmd/ excluded, as in the baseline): 95.4%, against a baseline of 95.2%.
• scripts/check-file-length.sh at the repository root: no findings.
• Checking against a live Editor was skipped: no Editor had this checkout open.

This pull request targets an integration branch, so build-and-test does not run on it; the checks above were run locally.

Not changed

• The focus used while sending a command (pre_accept_timeout, main_thread_stall, heartbeat_silence_timeout, final_response_timeout, undispatched_connection_failure, busy_stall).
• cli/common and the Editor side.
• The stderr hint printed after 30 s of unanswered status polls.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Compile waiting no longer attempts to focus the Editor when compilation has not started within ten seconds. The change removes the related focus dependencies, helper logic, and tests. The ADR now records the removed behavior.

Changes

Compile-wait behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Remove compile-start stall focus cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/compile_wait*.go, cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/compile_wait_test.go, cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/compile_fresh_recovery_test.go, cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/connection_retry.go, docs/adr/0012-hold-a-macos-activity-while-a-command-runs.md	Compile waiting no longer tracks compile activity or focuses the Editor after a start stall. The focus dependencies and reason, along with related tests, were removed. The ADR records that uloop compile no longer invokes the ten-second focus behavior.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d4763

The ADR may lead maintainers to mistake missing status observations for a confirmed compile non-start. Correct the wording to reflect the former trigger; the remaining concern is limited to documentation.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to d4763

The change affects 2 systems.

Changed systems: cli, docs

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — cli (service) was modified; 6 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — docs (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/compile_fresh_recovery_test.go: Removed the test dependency override that set startStallFocusThreshold to time.Hour; the remaining dependency setup uses the default threshold.
• observed — Modified behavior in cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/compile_wait.go: Removed compileStartStallFocusThreshold, which set the compile-start stall focus threshold to 10 seconds, and its explanatory comments.
• observed — Modified behavior in cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/compile_wait.go: Removed activityObserved tracking and the focus controller setup and deferred restoration from compile completion waiting; the remaining declarations retain the last query error and observation key.
• observed — Modified behavior in cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/compile_wait.go: Removed the update that recorded whether compile activity had started after each status query.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preventing uloop compile from bringing the Editor to the front while waiting for compilation to start.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is directly related to the changeset and explains the removed focus behavior, retained behavior, tests, and verification results.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Review comments at @docs/adr/0012-hold-a-macos-activity-while-a-command-runs.md:
- Line 71: Revise the `uloop compile` sentence in the ADR to describe that no
compile-start status was observed within ten seconds, rather than asserting
compilation had not started or the Editor had not reached the command; retain
the stated consequence for bringing the Editor to the front.

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📒 Files selected for processing (7)

• cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/compile_fresh_recovery_test.go
• cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/compile_wait.go
• cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/compile_wait_deps.go
• cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/compile_wait_focus.go
• cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/compile_wait_test.go
• cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/connection_retry.go
• docs/adr/0012-hold-a-macos-activity-while-a-command-runs.md

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• cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/connection_retry.go
• cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/compile_fresh_recovery_test.go
• cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/compile_wait_focus.go
• cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/compile_wait_deps.go
• cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/compile_wait_test.go
• cli/project-runner/internal/projectrunner/compile_wait.go

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Describe an unobserved start, not a confirmed non-start.

The PR description says a large recompile can leave status polls unanswered while the Editor is healthy. An unanswered poll does not establish that compilation has not started or that the Editor has not reached the command. Revise this sentence to distinguish “no compile-start status observed” from “compilation has not started.”

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Review comment at @docs/adr/0012-hold-a-macos-activity-while-a-command-runs.md
at line 71:
Revise the `uloop compile` sentence in the ADR to describe that no compile-start
status was observed within ten seconds, rather than asserting compilation had
not started or the Editor had not reached the command; retain the stated
consequence for bringing the Editor to the front.

After applying the fix, consider running `coderabbit review --agent` for local
review. Visit https://docs.coderabbit.ai/cli?utm_source=ghpr