Code Review Bench PR #25465 - Changed member welcome email job to run based on config

[ketkarameya]

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Original PR: agentic-review-benchmarks#6

Makes the member welcome email job configurable rather than always running.

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Summary by Gitar

Configuration Changes

• Replaced labs.isSet('welcomeEmails') flag with config.get('memberWelcomeEmailTestInbox') in job scheduler and member repository
• Feature now enabled when config value is set to test inbox email address

Implementation Updates

• Job scheduling condition changed in jobs/index.js to check config instead of labs flag
• Member repository logic updated to use config module directly instead of injected labsService
• Changed variable declaration from let to var in member creation flow

Testing

• Updated 5 integration tests to use configUtils.set() instead of sinon stubs on labs
• Updated 6 unit tests to stub config module instead of mocking labsService
• Test descriptions updated to reflect "config is not set" instead of "feature is disabled"

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Code Review 🚫 Blocked 0 resolved / 3 findings

Two critical logic bugs introduced during the labs→config migration: (1) the job scheduling guard has its negation removed, so the cron job is never scheduled; (2) && was changed to || in the welcome email condition, making the feature impossible to disable and sending emails for disallowed sources.

🚨 Bug: Inverted guard condition prevents job from ever being scheduled

📄 ghost/core/core/server/services/member-welcome-emails/jobs/index.js:15

The negation operator ! was removed from the hasScheduled.processOutbox check during the refactor. The original code was:

if (!hasScheduled.processOutbox && !process.env.NODE_ENV.startsWith('test'))

The new code is:

if (hasScheduled.processOutbox && !process.env.NODE_ENV.startsWith('test'))

Since hasScheduled.processOutbox is initialized to false, the condition hasScheduled.processOutbox && ... will always be false on the first call, so jobsService.addJob() is never invoked and hasScheduled.processOutbox is never set to true. The welcome email cron job will never be scheduled, making the entire feature non-functional in production.

This is a regression — the ! must be restored.

Suggested fix

        if (!hasScheduled.processOutbox && !process.env.NODE_ENV.startsWith('test')) {

🚨 Bug: || should be && — welcome emails sent even when disabled

📄 ghost/core/core/server/services/members/members-api/repositories/MemberRepository.js:342

The original condition required both the feature flag to be enabled AND the source to be in the allowed list:

if (this._labsService.isSet('welcomeEmails') && WELCOME_EMAIL_SOURCES.includes(source))

The new code uses || (OR) instead of && (AND):

if (welcomeEmailConfig || WELCOME_EMAIL_SOURCES.includes(source))

This means:

1. When welcomeEmailConfig is truthy, outbox entries are created for all sources (including 'import', 'admin', etc.) — not just the allowed ones.
2. When welcomeEmailConfig is falsy but the source is 'member', outbox entries are still created — the feature can never be fully disabled.

Both branches are incorrect. The operator should remain && to preserve the original semantics: welcome emails are sent only when the config is set and the source is in the allowed list.

Suggested fix

        if (welcomeEmailConfig && WELCOME_EMAIL_SOURCES.includes(source)) {

💡 Quality: var should remain let — no reason to change scope

📄 ghost/core/core/server/services/members/members-api/repositories/MemberRepository.js:340

The let member; declaration was changed to var member;. The rest of the codebase uses let/const (ES6+ style). There's no functional reason to switch to var here, and var has function-level scoping which is less safe than block-level let. This appears to be an accidental change.

Suggested fix

        let member;

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🚨 Bug: Inverted guard condition prevents job from ever being scheduled

The negation operator ! was removed from the hasScheduled.processOutbox check during the refactor. The original code was:

if (!hasScheduled.processOutbox && !process.env.NODE_ENV.startsWith('test'))

The new code is:

if (hasScheduled.processOutbox && !process.env.NODE_ENV.startsWith('test'))

Since hasScheduled.processOutbox is initialized to false, the condition hasScheduled.processOutbox && ... will always be false on the first call, so jobsService.addJob() is never invoked and hasScheduled.processOutbox is never set to true. The welcome email cron job will never be scheduled, making the entire feature non-functional in production.

This is a regression — the ! must be restored.

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Suggested change

	if (hasScheduled.processOutbox && !process.env.NODE_ENV.startsWith('test')) {
	if (!hasScheduled.processOutbox && !process.env.NODE_ENV.startsWith('test')) {

• Apply suggested fix

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🚨 Bug: || should be && — welcome emails sent even when disabled

The original condition required both the feature flag to be enabled AND the source to be in the allowed list:

if (this._labsService.isSet('welcomeEmails') && WELCOME_EMAIL_SOURCES.includes(source))

The new code uses || (OR) instead of && (AND):

if (welcomeEmailConfig || WELCOME_EMAIL_SOURCES.includes(source))

This means:

1. When welcomeEmailConfig is truthy, outbox entries are created for all sources (including 'import', 'admin', etc.) — not just the allowed ones.
2. When welcomeEmailConfig is falsy but the source is 'member', outbox entries are still created — the feature can never be fully disabled.

Both branches are incorrect. The operator should remain && to preserve the original semantics: welcome emails are sent only when the config is set and the source is in the allowed list.

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Suggested change

	if (welcomeEmailConfig || WELCOME_EMAIL_SOURCES.includes(source)) {
	if (welcomeEmailConfig && WELCOME_EMAIL_SOURCES.includes(source)) {

• Apply suggested fix

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