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ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/HKG-1983/move-members-migrations-out-of-the-background-jobs-system

The members-migrations job runs the 2021-era Stripe backfills at most once per site, and boot waits for it to finish, so it was never a background job in practice. It only used the one-off job feature of @tryghost/job-manager for its "already ran" row, and it is the last production user of that feature, which blocks removing the library in HKG-1985.

The members service now does the same work directly during startup: read the jobs row, run the backfills when the row is missing or failed, then write the row. No job machinery is involved.

What stays the same

  • The skip rule: a row with any status except failed means skip.
  • The row is still written when Stripe is not connected, so a site that connects Stripe later never runs these backfills.
  • Boot still blocks on this step, so the site stays in maintenance mode while a backfill runs.
  • A thrown error is logged, the row is marked failed, and boot continues, as the old error handler did.

What changes

  • The row is written after the run instead of before, so a boot that dies mid-way retries next time.
  • The 500ms polling loop is gone.
  • The test-environment skip is gone, so the code now runs under the e2e suite and is covered.
  • If two processes boot a site with no row at the same time, the second insert hitting the unique jobs.name index is treated as "row exists" rather than a boot failure. Both processes run the backfills in that case, where the old code claimed the row first. Every site that has booted since Ghost 5.6 already has the row, and the backfills do nothing without Stripe, so this is accepted.

Tests

A new e2e boot test (test/e2e-server/services/members-migrations.test.ts) covers the fresh boot row, the skip path, the retry after failed, the throw path, the duplicate-row case and the rethrow when no row exists. member-welcome-emails.test.js now awaits membersService.init(), which it needs because init() now touches the jobs table in test environments.

Notes for infra

Log messages for this job change. The [Background Job] prefix is dropped and the queued line is removed. The new messages are:

  • Stripe members-migrations started
  • Stripe members-migrations completed in Xms
  • Stripe members-migrations failed after Xms (error level)
  • Stripe members-migrations skipped because it has already run
  • Stripe members-migrations row was already written by another process (warn level, new)

No Elastic alert rule matches the old strings, so nothing needs updating on that side.

Not in this PR

  • Removing the one-off job methods from @tryghost/job-manager and the dev-only testmode route: HKG-1985.
  • Deleting the Stripe backfills, this runner and the existing jobs rows: next major.

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The members service now runs Stripe migrations during initialization and tracks each attempt in the members-migrations job row. It skips completed migrations, retries failed attempts, records timestamps and status, logs execution errors, and handles concurrent row creation. Initialization awaits the migration run in all environments. Tests cover successful, skipped, retried, failed, concurrent, and insert-error paths. The member welcome emails test now awaits service initialization.

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Stripe migrations now run during members-service startup. Concurrent startup may still run migrations more than once, and an unrelated database insert failure could be treated as successful recovery when a job row exists, so these cases should be resolved before merge.

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Add a Zod schema for the required jobs row fields and parse the fetched row before using status or id. Use the parsed, validated values for the skip decision and update. Handle an invalid row as an explicit initialization error instead of consuming it.

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ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/HKG-1983/move-members-migrations-out-of-the-background-jobs-system

The members-migrations job runs the 2021-era Stripe backfills at most once
per site and boot waits for it, so it was never really a background job. It
only used @tryghost/job-manager's one-off feature for its "already ran" row,
and it is the last production user of that feature, which blocks removing
the library in HKG-1985.

The members service now does the same work directly during startup: read
the jobs row, run the backfills when it is missing or failed, then write the
row. The skip rule is unchanged (any status except failed means skip), the
row is still written when Stripe is not connected, and boot still blocks.
The row is written after the run so an interrupted run retries next boot,
the 500ms polling loop is gone, and the test-environment skip is dropped so
the code is covered by the new e2e boot test. The welcome emails integration
test now awaits the members service init, because init touches the jobs
table in test environments from here on.
ref https://linear.app/ghost/issue/HKG-1983/move-members-migrations-out-of-the-background-jobs-system

The row is written after the backfills run, so two processes booting a site
that has no row yet both reach the insert, and the unique index on jobs.name
rejects the second one. The old job claimed the row before running, so the
loser used to wait instead of failing. The runner now treats a failed insert
as done when the row exists afterwards, and still rethrows when it does not.

Both processes running the backfills in that window is accepted: every site
that has booted since Ghost 5.6 already has the row, and the backfills do
nothing without Stripe, which a site on its first boot never has.
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Limit recovery to unique-constraint conflicts.

Lines 104-108 prove the duplicate-row path, but they do not prove that other insert errors still fail boot. Add a case that inserts the competing row and then throws a non-unique error. Assert that membersService.init() rejects. Otherwise, a broad catch can hide an unexpected database error when a row exists.

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In `@ghost/core/test/e2e-server/services/members-migrations.test.ts` around lines
104 - 108, Add a test case around membersService.init() that inserts the
competing row, makes the wrapped insert throw a non-unique database error, and
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unique-constraint scenario intact, ensuring recovery applies only to
unique-constraint conflicts rather than masking other insert failures.

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In `@ghost/core/test/e2e-server/services/members-migrations.test.ts`:
- Around line 104-108: Add a test case around membersService.init() that inserts
the competing row, makes the wrapped insert throw a non-unique database error,
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Repo: TryGhost/Ghost PR: 29723
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@coderabbitai On the grouped minor comment about members-migrations.test.ts lines 104-108 ("Limit recovery to unique-constraint conflicts"): this is the same point as the earlier inline thread on service.js line 171, which you withdrew and recorded as a learning. The runner deliberately does not inspect the insert error. The members-migrations row is an attempt guard, so once a row exists, from whichever process, there is nothing left for this process to persist and failing boot would only reduce availability. The rethrow path when no row exists is covered by the last test in the file. Leaving as is.

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@vershwal Thanks for the clarification. The grouped comment duplicates the withdrawn inline concern and does not apply. The test coverage for the missing-row rethrow path is sufficient.


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Repo: TryGhost/Ghost PR: 30516
File: ghost/core/core/server/services/members/service.js:171-171
Timestamp: 2026-09-03T17:53:01.047Z
Learning: In `ghost/core/core/server/services/members/service.js`, the `members-migrations` `jobs` row is an attempt guard for the historical Stripe backfills. In `runStripeMigrations`, if `models.Job.add()` fails and `models.Job.findOne({ name: membersMigrationJobName })` then finds a row, startup must continue regardless of the insert error type because the guard is satisfied. The error must be rethrown only when no row exists.

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Repo: TryGhost/Ghost PR: 30516
File: ghost/core/core/server/services/members/service.js:150-150
Timestamp: 2026-09-03T17:52:54.983Z
Learning: In `ghost/core/core/server/services/members/service.js`, `runStripeMigrations` intentionally writes the `members-migrations` job row after execution. This allows an interrupted boot to retry on the next boot. Concurrent first boots can execute simultaneously before the unique job-row insert, but this is an accepted HKG-1983 trade-off because existing sites already have the row and disconnected Stripe makes the backfills return without work. The temporary runner and backfills are scheduled for deletion in the next major release.

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