"Free" represents the new era of open source development empowered by AI. Both freedom and free — the AI agent is not just free labor, it is like a copy of myself, or even tens of copies, all deeply understanding this project, how to deliver high-quality code, and how to serve the community. AI handles all the dirty work — the boring tasks, the documentation, the coding — and often does it better than I could, with ten times the power. We built an AI robot for the community to answer questions and help users learn this project, and we used AI to almost entirely rewrite the SRS Proxy server — its structure, its workflow — so that AI agents can comprehensively manage and maintain it. With AI I have power, and I have choice: no longer waiting for other developers to contribute, I am free to manage this project, freed from the labor of maintaining it alone. This is a fantastic, amazing new era for building and sustaining open source projects and communities.
- Refactor the Go proxy for dependency injection: every proxy server,
the bootstrap, the signal handler, the load balancers, and AMF0 now accept
functional-option seams (factories/closures) so tests can inject fakes
without binding real sockets, talking to real Redis, or racing on
package globals.
- Drop the package-global `lb.SrsLoadBalancer`. The bootstrap creates
the LB locally and threads it through every proxy server constructor. Two old
global indirections in `internal/signal` and `internal/rtmp/amf0` are
likewise replaced by per-instance fields.
- Rename `internal/server` → `internal/proxy` and rename the `lb` public
surface for clarity: `SRSLoadBalancer` is split into `OriginService` /
`HLSService` / `RTCService` and recomposed as `OriginLoadBalancer`;
`SRSServer` → `OriginServer`; all proxy server types gain a `Proxy`
qualifier (e.g. `RTMPServer` → `RTMPProxyServer`).
- Extract the Redis client behind a new `internal/redisclient` package
with a minimal `RedisClient` interface and a counterfeiter fake.
- Add counterfeiter fakes (`proxyfakes`, `lbfakes`, `redisclientfakes`)
and ~7.5k lines of unit tests covering bootstrap, memory + Redis LBs, all
five proxy servers, the signal handler, and AMF0.
- Add two new E2E flows — `proxy-e2e-srt-test.sh` (SRT publish through
proxy, verify SRT/RTMP/HTTP-FLV/HLS playback) and `proxy-e2e-whip-test.sh`
(WHIP publish, verify RTMP/HTTP-FLV/HLS via origin `rtc_to_rtmp`) — plus
`setup-ffmpeg-with-whip.sh`, a macOS builder for an ffmpeg with
openssl-DTLS WHIP and SRT support that the two scripts auto-invoke when needed.
- Workspace reorg: move `memory/` and `skills/` to the repo root so all
agent tools (Claude / Codex / Kiro / OpenClaw) share one source of truth via
symlinks. Sync `docs/proxy/proxy-load-balancer.md` and
`memory/srs-codebase-map.md` with the new names.
No protocol, log, HTTP API, or wire-format changes. Refactor only — all
externally observable proxy behavior is unchanged.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: chatgpt-codex-connector[bot] <199175422+chatgpt-codex-connector[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
