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Claude 98a7c769ec fix(sports): harden the live game-over check and font/log init
Follow-up review findings on the promoted base-class methods.

_is_game_really_over:
- `period` present-but-None raised TypeError on `None >= FINAL_PERIOD`,
  taking down the whole live-update pass (_detect_stale_games has no
  try/except). Same failure shape as the null `period_text` already fixed.
- An expired clock spelled "00:00" normalizes to "0000", which matched
  none of the hand-listed literals, so a finished game with a two-digit
  minute clock stayed on the scoreboard forever. Compare numerically.

SportsCore:
- _load_fonts kept the cwd-relative "assets/fonts/..." literals the
  _font_root() seam exists to remove, so every scoreboard font degraded
  to PIL's default face outside the install root.
- _should_log read self._last_warning_time unguarded while only an
  unrelated method initialized it lazily; the first warning of a run
  raised AttributeError. Initialize it in __init__.

Also documents that game_update_timestamps is written by subclasses, not
by the base class, so the staleness branch is inert until B5 adoption.

14 new tests. Gates: 463 core unit, 60 plugin safety.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01FgbA8SMutQQpXkMG8LMmC4
2026-08-01 16:45:04 +00:00

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# Changelog
Notable changes to the LEDMatrix core. The version below is the value of
`src.__version__`, which the plugin loader reports to compatibility checks and
which plugin manifests reference via `ledmatrix_min_version`.
**Why this file exists:** the plugin monorepo bundles fallback copies of several
core modules (see `docs/plugin-development/08-shared-sports-code.md` in
[ledmatrix-plugins](https://github.com/ChuckBuilds/ledmatrix-plugins)). A plugin
may delete its bundled copy only when its manifest floors on the first core
release that ships the module — which requires module additions to be recorded
here, against a version number. When you add a module plugins will import via
`src.*`, note it in the Unreleased section and bump `src/__init__.py` in the
release that ships it.
## Unreleased
### Added
- `src/element_style.py` — per-element style resolver backing the
`x-style-elements` config-schema extension. Already consumed (behind guarded
imports with classic fallbacks) by the `of-the-day`, `ledmatrix-music`, and
`football-scoreboard` plugins.
- Core unit-test CI job enrolling the previously unenrolled suites (skin
system, data sources, API extractors, scroll helper, adaptive layout, loader
compatibility warning) plus new characterization tests for
`src/base_classes/sports.py` ahead of the shared sports-code unification.
- `src/base_classes/sports/``sports.py` is now a package (`core.py` +
`modes.py`). The import path is unchanged: `from src.base_classes.sports
import SportsCore` still works.
- Nine methods promoted onto the sports base classes from the plugins'
bundled copies, plus the override points `_favorite_key`,
`_config_schema_path` and `_font_root` and the class attributes
`FINAL_PERIOD` / `CLOCK_COUNTS_DOWN`. See `docs/SPORTS_UNIFICATION.md`.
A plugin may start calling these once its manifest floors
`ledmatrix_min_version` at the release that ships them.
### Changed
- **Live games are no longer dropped when the feed omits a game clock.**
`SportsLive._is_game_really_over` previously (in the baseball and UFC
plugin lineages) coerced a missing or non-string clock to the literal
`"0:00"` and then treated the game as finished once `period >= 4`. Baseball
has no game clock and `period` is the inning, so live MLB games disappeared
from the scoreboard from the 5th inning onward; UFC was affected the same
way. The clock check is now skipped when the clock is unusable, and the
period threshold is the per-sport `FINAL_PERIOD` (hockey ends in P3).
Sports whose clocks count up — soccer, AFL, NRL — set
`CLOCK_COUNTS_DOWN = False` and never run the check at all, since `0:00`
there means kickoff rather than expiry.
### Fixed
- `FontManager` resolves `assets/fonts` against the core install root instead
of the process working directory, so font loading works when the process
starts elsewhere (e.g. the plugin safety harness on CI).
- Hockey events whose competitors carry no `statistics` array are no longer
discarded. The extractor read `competitor["statistics"]` unguarded, so a
`KeyError` inside the generator dropped the entire event despite valid
scores and status; shot counts now fall back to `0`.
- Live baseball events that populate status only at the competition level are
no longer discarded. The extractor read the event top-level
`game_event["status"]` for the inning; real ESPN events duplicate it, but
MiLB events synthesized from the MLB Stats API do not, so the lookup raised
a bare `KeyError`. It now reads the already-validated competition-level
status.
- `SportsLive._is_game_really_over` no longer crashes the live-update pass when
a feed sends an explicit null `period`. `None >= FINAL_PERIOD` raised
`TypeError`, and the only caller (`_detect_stale_games`) has no `try/except`
— the same failure shape as the already-fixed null `period_text`.
- An expired clock spelled `"00:00"` now ends the game. The check compared the
colon-stripped clock against a hand-listed set of literals, which `"0000"` is
not a member of, so a finished game with a two-digit-minute clock stayed on
the scoreboard indefinitely. The comparison is now numeric.
- `SportsCore._load_fonts` resolves `assets/fonts` through the `_font_root()`
seam instead of the process working directory. Started outside the install
root, every scoreboard font silently degraded to PIL's default bitmap face.
- `SportsCore._should_log` no longer raises `AttributeError` on the first
warning of a run; `_last_warning_time` is initialized in `__init__` rather
than lazily by an unrelated method.
- `SportsCore._resolve_project_path` resolved relative logo directories
against `<root>/src` instead of the repo root after `sports.py` became a
package — the class bodies moved byte-identically but `__file__` gained a
directory. Both it and `_font_root` now derive from one `_INSTALL_ROOT`
constant.
## 3.1.0
Baseline for this changelog. Highlights already shipped at this version:
skin system for sports scoreboards (#419), Vegas continuous-scroll overhaul
(#423), plugin update surfacing (#421).