The e2e job's red history is one measurement being wrong. ALSA's `null`
plugin does not pace: measured in this exact image through beep and oto
with the same speaker.Init arguments player.InitSpeaker uses, 3000 ms
of audio is consumed in 2.96 ms — a thousand times too fast. So every
track finished instantly, the position reset to zero, and three specs
failed on a clock that never moved. It read as a flake because
InitSpeaker succeeds either way, in ~3 ms either way.
A PulseAudio null sink is timer-scheduled: the same 3000 ms takes
3762 ms, and 12 s takes 13.5 s — the overhead is a constant buffer
drain, not a rate error. Verified under the private session bus and
Xvfb dev-headless.sh runs the app in, with no system D-Bus and no
kernel module, which is what makes it reachable from a container.
The sink is a dependency with a rate, so it is now checked like one: a
step plays three seconds and fails if they take under two. Without it
the failure surfaces three steps later as "the elapsed clock is 19 s
adrift", which reads as an app bug and cost two sessions of exactly
that suspicion.
The WebKit step had no `if:`, so a chromium failure skipped it — and
chromium has been failing on the container's audio clock for every push
of the last two sessions. The job log says `conclusion: skipped`, so the
one place WebKit2GTK gets any coverage has produced no signal at all
while the plan recorded a possible WebKit regression as unverified.
CLAUDE.md has claimed since the file was written that commitlint gates
the commit format in CI and that semantic-release runs off it. There was
no commitlint config, no workflow running one, and nothing invoking
.releaserc.yml — so the first thing every contributor and every agent
reads about this repo was false in two places.
scripts/commit-check.sh is the smaller honest answer: the grammar is one
regex, and commitlint would mean a Node dependency tree at the root of a
Go repo to run it. It is a commit-msg hook locally and a CI step over
every commit in a push, and its type list is .releaserc.yml's so the
check and the release rules cannot drift.
The semantic-release half is recorded as configured-but-not-wired rather
than implied to run.
main.go embeds frontend/dist, so lint, test and bindings-check all fail
on a fresh clone until pnpm build has run. Invisible locally because
anyone who has started the app has a dist/ lying around, and the
container prototype missed it because both job scripts shared one
mounted directory, so job 1 consumed a dist/ that job 2's dev-headless
had built on an earlier run.
A coding agent could develop this repo's Go packages and could not
develop the application: every path to running YellowJacket ended in a
blocking GTK window, so 265 bound methods, 46 events, 33 component
directories and 13 stores had exactly one form of verification
available — `tsc --noEmit`.
The unlock is that `wails dev`'s dev server on :34115 serves the real
frontend with the real generated bindings against the same Go backend a
desktop window attaches to, so a plain Chromium under Xvfb gets a fully
functional app. Four test tiers now exist, cheapest first:
- `make ui-test` — 313 Vitest tests in a real browser in ~2 s, no app,
no backend, no display. Works because `frontend/wailsjs/` is a pure
passthrough to `window.go`/`window.runtime`, so faking just those two
globals runs the real bindings and the real store code.
- `make test` — services in-process, asserting on the payload the
frontend would receive, via a new `events.Emit` wrapper.
- `make dev-headless` + `playwright-cli` — the real app, driven
interactively, with an event bridge on `window.__yjEvents` and a
dev-only control surface at `/__test/`.
- `make e2e` — 19 of those flows frozen as Playwright specs.
`events.Emit(ctx, …)` replaces all 35 direct `runtime.EventsEmit` call
sites: wails' `getEvents` `log.Fatalf`s on any context without its
runtime, so those paths could not run under test and a background
worker could take the app down. Four packages had each hand-rolled the
same guard; nine more guarded on `ctx != nil`, which does not help.
`TestNoDirectRuntimeEmits` fails the build on a new one.
Fixtures are generated, not committed (`make testdata`), and seeds are
built by *running the app* — never by hand-writing config and DB rows,
which would be a second description of a valid YJ_HOME.
`.gitea/workflows/ci.yml` is the first workflow here that tests
anything; the other three only package, so `gitea_ci` reported only
packaging jobs and misled anyone asking whether a push was healthy.
Both jobs were prototyped to green in a bare ubuntu:24.04 container
before the YAML was written, which immediately caught `make lint`
linting three configurations that nothing builds: all three passes
omitted `webkit2_41`, so wails resolved webkit2gtk-4.0 — which Arch
still ships and Ubuntu 24.04 dropped.
Operational instructions live in `.pi/skills/yellowjacket-dev/`,
measured discoveries in `.planning/NOTES.md`, and architecture in
`CLAUDE.md` — split by tense, not by topic, because a topical split
gives every new fact two plausible homes. `make skill-check` fails a
commit if the skill cites a make target that does not exist.
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