betterbird: a module for the mail and calendar client, so its windows and preferences can be seen and declared (hq issue 345)

A calendar reminder showed as a transparent, empty window on shanks and no tool could say which window it was or which preferences Betterbird ran with. The module owns one file, the user.js its setting prefs fills, which its tools place whole into the profile Betterbird uses and never over an operator's own; it reads named preferences without credentials or accounts, restarts Betterbird under the user manager so its output reaches the journal, checks what it promises, and shows a reminder on demand from a throw-away profile so a fix can be proved without the operator's calendar. No package: betterbird-bin is the AUR's.
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+{
+  "module": "betterbird",
+  "version": "1",
+  "requires": [
+    "x11-display"
+  ],
+  "settings": {
+    "prefs": {
+      "kind": "preference",
+      "default": "// none",
+      "why": "Betterbird runs with its own defaults until a machine's assignment names a preference: one line of user_pref(\"name\", value); statements, which the module's user.js holds and Betterbird reads at its start (novox/hq issue 345)"
+    }
+  },
+  "tools": [
+    "betterbird_status",
+    "betterbird_prefs",
+    "betterbird_user_js",
+    "betterbird_log",
+    "betterbird_restart",
+    "betterbird_check",
+    "betterbird_reminder_test"
+  ],
+  "resources": [
+    {
+      "id": "configuration-dir",
+      "type": "directory",
+      "path": "${machine:account-home}/.config/betterbird",
+      "owner": "${machine:account}",
+      "mode": "0755"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "user-js",
+      "type": "file",
+      "path": "${machine:account-home}/.config/betterbird/user.js",
+      "owner": "${machine:account}",
+      "mode": "0644",
+      "content": "// Betterbird's user.js (module betterbird, novox/hq issue 345). Owned by the mesh: the node-engine\n// writes it here at every push, and the module's tools copy it whole into Betterbird's profile\n// (betterbird_user_js with apply, betterbird_restart), where Betterbird reads it at its start and lets it\n// win over the preferences Betterbird saves itself. Change the module's setting prefs, never this file or the profile's copy.\n//\n// Only comments and user_pref(\"name\", value); statements; the tools refuse anything else, and any\n// preference whose name can hold a credential.\n${setting:prefs}\n"
+    }
+  ],
+  "build": {
+    "artifacts": [
+      {
+        "name": "tools",
+        "kind": "bundle",
+        "language": "go",
+        "system": "arch",
+        "from": "cmd/betterbird-tools",
+        "binary": "betterbird-tools",
+        "loads": [
+          "betterbird-tools"
+        ]
+      }
+    ]
+  }
+}