runicgateway.com/src/data/beta.mjs

/**
 * beta.mjs — the closed beta as data: the limits, the consent wording, and the two gates
 * that are not open yet. PLAN.md §8, built in phase 5.
 *
 * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 * WHY THE CONSENT TEXT LIVES HERE AND NOT IN THE MARKUP
 * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 * §8's schema stores `consent_text` — the exact wording somebody agreed to — rather than a
 * version number, so a row can always answer "what did this person actually consent to"
 * without going back through the git history of a template. That only works if the string
 * the page renders and the string the row records are the same object. One export, read by
 * the label on the checkbox and by the insert.
 *
 * Editing it is therefore a real act: every row written from that moment carries the new
 * wording, and the old rows keep the old one, which is the behaviour that makes the column
 * worth having. `CONSENT_VERSION` is not what the row stores — it exists so an operator
 * reading a CSV can group rows without diffing prose.
 *
 * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 * THE TWO GATES (D26, D27)
 * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 * The page collects signups today and cannot invite anybody yet, for two independent
 * reasons, and it says both plainly rather than implying a queue that is moving:
 *
 *   1. THE PLAY TRACK. A closed test has an opt-in URL, and that URL only works for
 *      addresses already on the tester list — which is the whole reason §8 can publish it
 *      and still send no email (D7). The developer account exists; the track does not, so
 *      there is no URL yet. It is a `brand.json` field for the same reason `demoUrl` is:
 *      the day the track opens, the confirmation screen gains a working link for the cost
 *      of a file copy and a restart (§7).
 *
 *   2. SOMEWHERE TO POINT IT. `ConnectScreen.kt` on `Android-app` `main` is blunt about
 *      this — "nothing else in the app runs until a valid Runic Gateway site is entered and
 *      validated". An installed app with no deployment behind it is a text field. D27 makes
 *      the public demo (§15) the tester target rather than naming a private shard, which
 *      means the beta opens when the demo VM does. `notBuilt.mjs` already carries that
 *      absence; this page renders the demo link from `demoUrl` when there is one.
 *
 * Neither gate is a reason not to collect addresses now — the list is what makes the first
 * batch possible on day one — but a page that hid them would be advertising a beta that
 * cannot start, which is exactly what §1 forbids.
 */

import { legal } from './legal.mjs';

/**
 * Google Play's closed-testing rules, as verified in the Play Console documentation on
 * **2026-08-24**.
 *
 * These are the one class of fact on this site that `checkFacts.mjs` cannot police: there
 * is no API to fetch them from and Play's testing requirements have changed more than once
 * (§8 says so in as many words). So they carry a date, they live in data rather than prose
 * like every other fact here, and the date is rendered on the page next to them. A reader
 * can tell how old the claim is, and so can whoever re-checks it before launch.
 */
export const playPolicy = {
  verifiedOn: '2026-08-24',
  /** Opted-in testers required, continuously, before production access can be requested. */
  testersRequired: 12,
  /** Consecutive days those testers must stay opted in. */
  testerDays: 14,
  /** Addresses one pasted email list holds. Context for the cap below, not a target. */
  addressesPerList: 2000,
};

/**
 * The signup limits (§8's "abuse resistance without a third party").
 *
 * Every one of these is overridable by environment variable, and that is deliberate: the
 * numbers are guesses about a form nobody has attacked yet, and the alternative to tuning
 * them from the compose file is rebuilding an image to change an integer.
 *
 * `TOTAL_CAP` is the org lead's choice of 500 — far above any plausible demand for a beta
 * that needs twelve people, and far below one list's 2,000, so a run that beats both the
 * honeypot and the bucket still cannot fill the box before the form closes and says so.
 */
export const limits = {
  /** Rows, across all time, above which the form closes. */
  totalCap: readInt('BETA_TOTAL_CAP', 500),
  /** Signups one `ip_hash` may make in a rolling hour. */
  perHour: readInt('BETA_PER_HOUR', 3),
  /** Signups one `ip_hash` may make in a rolling day. */
  perDay: readInt('BETA_PER_DAY', 24),
  /**
   * Seconds a human plausibly needs between the page rendering and the form posting.
   *
   * Two is §8's number and it is generous in the right direction: a person who has already
   * decided still has to type an address and tick a box. A script does not.
   */
  minSeconds: readInt('BETA_MIN_SECONDS', 2),
  /**
   * Seconds after which a rendered form is stale.
   *
   * Not an abuse control — a page left open overnight has a timestamp that says nothing,
   * and re-rendering the form is a better answer than trusting it. Twelve hours.
   */
  maxSeconds: readInt('BETA_MAX_SECONDS', 12 * 60 * 60),
};

function readInt(name, fallback) {
  const raw = process.env[name];
  if (raw === undefined || raw === '') return fallback;

  const value = Number.parseInt(raw, 10);
  if (!Number.isFinite(value) || value <= 0) {
    // Loud, and then carry on with the default. A typo in a compose file should not stop
    // the site from booting, and it must not silently become an unlimited form either.
    console.warn(`[beta] ignoring ${name}="${raw}" — expected a positive integer.`);
    return fallback;
  }
  return value;
}

/**
 * A label for the batch a row was written in. Stored in no column — see the header.
 *
 * Suffixed rather than re-dated when phase 6 added the age clause on the same day the
 * original wording was written: two different sentences must not share a label, and the
 * date is what an operator groups a CSV by.
 */
export const CONSENT_VERSION = '2026-08-24b';

/**
 * The exact sentence beside the checkbox, and the exact sentence written to `consent_text`.
 *
 * Written to be true of what the code does, not of what a privacy policy template says:
 * the address is kept until the beta ends or removal is asked for, it is pasted into Play
 * because that is the only way Play accepts testers, and nothing is mailed to it because
 * the site cannot send mail at all (D7).
 *
 * Phase 6 added the age (D31), and it goes FIRST because it is the only clause the person
 * ticking the box is asserting rather than acknowledging — everything after it is a
 * description of what we do. `legal.minimumAge` is interpolated rather than typed, because
 * /privacy and /terms state the same number and the Data Safety notes answer a question
 * about it; four surfaces, one source.
 *
 * Editing this string is a real act: `consent_text` stores the wording rather than a
 * version, so rows written from here on carry the new sentence and older rows keep the one
 * they were given. That is the property that makes the column worth having.
 */
export const CONSENT_TEXT =
  `I am ${legal.minimumAge} or older. I understand my email address will be stored so it ` +
  'can be added to the Google Play closed test, that it will be shared with Google Play ' +
  'for that purpose only, that Runic Gateway sends no email of any kind, and that I can ' +
  'ask for it to be deleted at any time.';

/**
 * What a tester needs, rendered as the page's eligibility list.
 *
 * The third item is the one that matters and the one a beta page usually omits. It is
 * phrased as a dependency rather than a warning because it is one: the app is a client for
 * a deployment, and a client with no server is not a product with a missing feature.
 */
export const requirements = [
  {
    title: `Being ${legal.minimumAge} or older`,
    body:
      'The beta is for adults. Nothing verifies it and nothing pretends to — ticking the ' +
      'box on the form is the whole of it — but it is the condition the list is collected ' +
      'under, and it is why the form needs no parental consent machinery it could not ' +
      'honestly operate.',
  },
  {
    title: 'An Android device on 10 or newer',
    body:
      // No backticks. These strings render as text, not as Markdown, so a reader sees the
      // punctuation rather than code formatting — caught by looking at the built page.
      'API level 29 is the minimum the app is built against. Phones and tablets both; ' +
      'there is no TV or Wear build and none is planned.',
  },
  {
    title: 'A Google account, and the willingness to stay opted in',
    body:
      'Play counts testers who are opted in continuously. Leaving the test and rejoining ' +
      'resets that count for everybody, which is the one thing a tester can do that ' +
      'actually costs something.',
  },
  {
    title: 'A Runic Gateway deployment to connect to',
    body:
      'The app ships pointed at nothing. Its first screen asks for the address of a site ' +
      'running this platform and validates it before anything else in the app will run — ' +
      'so a tester needs either their own deployment or the public demo, which is the ' +
      'second of the two things this beta is waiting on.',
  },
];

/**
 * The form's field names, in one place because three files need to agree about them: the
 * markup that renders the inputs, the handler that reads the body, and the test that posts
 * one. A honeypot whose name drifts is a honeypot that catches nothing, and nothing about
 * a passing build would say so.
 *
 * `HONEYPOT` is named for something a form plausibly has and a bot will want to fill.
 * Naming it `honeypot` would be a note to the bot.
 */
export const fields = {
  EMAIL: 'email',
  CONSENT: 'consent',
  HONEYPOT: 'website',
  /** When the form was rendered — signed, see `betaSignup.mjs`. */
  ISSUED: 'ts',
};