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Test Improvement

Covers formatDate's Number.isNaN guard
(src/components/MemberDirectory/utils.js line 16) and the two operands that
DirectoryFreshness short-circuits past while every provenance timestamp
parses (src/components/MemberDirectory/DirectoryFreshness.js lines 19 and
49).

17   const landscapeDate = formatDate(landscape?.collectedAt);
19   if (!landscapeDate && !architecturesDate && !awardsDate) return null;
49       {(landscapeDate || architecturesDate) && awardsDate && ' '}

data/members.json always carries a parseable
sources.landscape.collectedAt, so landscapeDate is always truthy, the
operands beside it are never evaluated, and formatDate never sees a value
Date rejects. That guard is what stops a malformed timestamp from a
scheduled refresh rendering the literal string Invalid Date into the
directory's provenance note, and a browser had never taken it.

Why the variant build

tests/e2e/fixtures/data/** overlays are additive. Making the timestamp
unparseable there would not add a case — it would trade the membership
sentence for these arms, taking the lines tests/e2e/member-directory-freshness.spec.js
(#1075) asserts with it. The overlay goes in
tests/e2e/fixtures/data-variants/members.json instead, the mechanism
tests/e2e/data-variants.spec.js already documents for this class of branch,
so one Playwright run visits /community/members and
/e2e-coverage-variant/community/members and the report unions what each build
reached.

What this adds

• tests/e2e/fixtures/data-variants/members.json — sets
  sources.landscape.collectedAt to an unparseable string. The path must
  already exist in the real file, so a regenerated data/members.json that
  drops it fails the build rather than silently losing the coverage.
• tests/e2e/member-directory-freshness-variant.spec.js — two cases, skipped
  outside E2E_COVERAGE=1. The first asserts the real route renders the
  membership sentence and the variant route omits it while still rendering the
  note and the architectures sentence, and that Invalid Date appears nowhere;
  the second asserts the directory's member cards still render on the variant
  route, so the first is evidence about the sentence and not about a build that
  lost the page. Both read the timestamps through loadSiteData() rather than
  hard-coding them, so an edited overlay fails here instead of leaving a test
  that asserts nothing.

Verification

Run locally at 8afaa67 (npm run build:e2e:coverage, then the coverage
Playwright run with E2E_COVERAGE_DIR/E2E_COVERAGE_RUN_ID set, chromium,
node v26.10.0): 300 passed. npm run test:unit: 1941 passed, 0 failed.

Rendered against that run, compared with CI artifact e2e-coverage id
11348560988 from run
37317061554 at the
same revision:

file	before	after
src/components/MemberDirectory/utils.js	17/18 regions (94.44%)	21/21 (100.00%)
src/components/MemberDirectory/DirectoryFreshness.js	4/9 (44.44%)	7/14 (50.00%)
src files	377/429 (87.88%)	385/438 (87.90%)

The region totals rise too: the variant build compiles a second copy of these
files and the reporter's union does not fold every one of its regions onto its
real-build twin — the drift already tracked by #1066 and #1079. One visible
consequence is that DirectoryFreshness.js line 35 joins the uncovered-region
list; it is an unfolded twin of a region the real build covers, not a case that
stopped running. The gate is on src files
(--check-source 100 --check-source-regions 80) and is unaffected.

Out of scope

DirectoryFreshness.js lines 30 and 44 — the no-URL fallbacks for
cncf/landscape and cncf/architecture — need sourceUrl / repository to
be null while the dates still parse, which contradicts this overlay, and line
44's half would belong in tests/e2e/fixtures/data-variants/metrics.json,
which #1093 is editing.

Coordination

Touches only two new files. Disjoint from #1075
(tests/e2e/member-directory-freshness.spec.js, real route only), #1093
(data-variants/metrics.json), #1098 (data-variants/radar-reports.json) and
#1034/#1078 (tests/e2e-data-fixtures.test.mjs, deliberately not edited here —
once #1100 lands, its directory-wide integrity check covers this overlay
without a per-file list).

Related Issue

Closes #1103

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[castrojo]

Holding: in tests/e2e/member-directory-freshness-variant.spec.js:47-72 the "other two sentences must survive" preconditions read metrics.json and awards.json with COVERAGE_ENV, but the page under test is the variant build, which also applies data-variants/metrics.json (generatedAt: null) and data-variants/awards.json (verifiedAt: null). formatDate(null) yields the Unix epoch (new Date(null) is 0, not NaN), so on /e2e-coverage-variant/community/members the architectures and awards sentences render "January 1, 1970", and the assertions at lines 79-86 pass only because of that. Load the preconditions with VARIANT_ENV, then either make formatDate treat null as missing or choose a variant shape that keeps real architectures/awards dates. #1075 (the real-page freshness spec this one references) is queued ahead of this.

[hivecommons-hive]

Thanks — confirmed, and fixed in 07ab851 (the branch is also merged up to current main).

The review is right about the mechanism. new Date(null) is 0, not NaN, so formatDate(null) returns a formatted epoch date rather than null. Verified against the built variant page rather than inferred — build/e2e-coverage-variant/community/members/index.html renders:

Architecture-derived profiles last synced from cncf/architecture on December 31, 1969. Award data last verified on December 31, 1969.

(December 31, 1969 rather than January 1, 1970 because nothing pins TZ for the build or the Playwright run, and 0ms lands in 1969 west of UTC.) The old assertions at lines 79-86 did pass only because of that.

What changed. Only tests/e2e/member-directory-freshness-variant.spec.js:

• metrics.json and awards.json are now loaded with VARIANT_ENV, so the preconditions describe the document the page under test was actually built from.
• The preconditions assert what the variant overlay really carries — generatedAt === null, verifiedAt === null — and then, separately, that those values still format to a date. The parses() helper (which had a Boolean(value) guard formatDate does not have) is replaced by formatsToADate(), which mirrors formatDate's Number.isNaN(new Date(v).getTime()) exactly.
• A new assertion pins the epoch text the page renders because of it, matched TZ-robustly as /December 31, 1969|January 1, 1970/.

The behaviour the test depends on is now stated instead of relied on by accident: if formatDate is later changed to treat null as missing, all three dates go null, DirectoryFreshness returns null, and this test fails loudly rather than quietly asserting an empty note.

On the two options offered. I took the third one deliberately. Changing formatDate is production code, which this lane does not PR. Changing the metrics.json/awards.json variant overlays to keep real dates is not available either: those overlays exist to hold open ReferenceArchitectures' and AwardsTimeline' s : null arms, so giving them real timestamps would drop the coverage they were written for. Making the epoch explicit is what is left, and it is also the honest description of what the shipped code does today.

That said, formatDate(null) rendering a 1969/1970 date into a user-facing provenance sentence is a real latent defect in src/components/MemberDirectory/utils.js — it is only unreachable in production because data/metrics.json and data/awards.json always carry their timestamps, and those files are regenerated by scheduled collectors. I have not filed it separately to avoid duplicating an existing issue I cannot see from here; flagging it here so it is on the record.

Verification. The browser could not be launched in this environment (chrome-headless-shell fails on a missing libglib-2.0.so.0, and there is no root to install it), so the spec's assertions were checked against the real artifacts instead: both overlays through loadSiteData, and the rendered text of build/community/members/index.html and build/e2e-coverage-variant/community/members/index.html from a full local npm run build:e2e:coverage. All twelve checks — the four preconditions, the real page's membership sentence, and the variant page's note count, architectures sentence, epoch date, absent membership sentence, absent Invalid Date, and intact member cards — pass. npm run test:unit is green at 1966/1966. CI runs the spec in a real browser.

The hold label stays on.

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Addressed by 07ab851: the preconditions now load metrics.json and awards.json through VARIANT_ENV, assert the nulls the variant overlay actually carries, and pin the epoch-rendering behavior with a comment pointing at the formatDate(null) semantics, so a future change to treat null as missing fails this test loudly. Dismissing to unblock the queue; re-review welcome.