mesh/merge-gate head 1835f0efad0f merged into trunk 39e7a06e6293 — pass: builds betterbird, sent nowhere; no bus step; 2 wait(s) for a person; every machin…
mesh/repo-check head 1835f0efad0f merged into trunk 39e7a06e6293 — pass: its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-…
The module owned only the accounts' server fields, so identities, signatures,
calendars, address books, filters and tags could differ between desktop nodes
unseen, and the operator's own preferences were shipped in the catalogue.
prefs becomes one entry per preference (a node's layer overrides one key) and the
defaults file keeps no value of the operator's; identities, calendars,
address-books, filters and tags become settings, adopted like accounts, filters
owned whole per account, and what Betterbird rewrites written only while it is
closed. New tools list each kind, derive the layers from every desktop node and
propose one at a time, and show drift; every answer passes a credential check.
mesh/merge-gate head c4b4bac757c5 merged into trunk 0863ec2a059d — pass: builds betterbird, sent nowhere; no bus step; 1 wait(s) for a person; every machin…
mesh/repo-check head c4b4bac757c5 merged into trunk 0863ec2a059d — pass: its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-…
Betterbird keeps the active theme in its add-on database, and extensions.activeThemeID only mirrors it.
So clearing the preference changed nothing, and the drift report then hid that. The theme is now read
from extensions.json against default-theme@mozilla.org. Another theme is drift, and its remedy is the
add-on manager: config_apply never clears it and keep refuses it.
A credential's, an account's or a server's name in the defaults file is refused by code: it is never
answered or cleared, and the check names it. Apply also refuses while the profile's lock is there, and
syncs prefs.js before the rename. A saved default of a built-in preference is no longer drift.
A module that installs Betterbird but leaves every node to its own settings does not set Betterbird up.
The operator approved the configuration on 2026-10-12, and it now ships in three layers. The policy
locks what must never differ: telemetry, add-on updates, the vendor's notices and the start page. A
defaults file carries the laptop's setup, so a fresh node gets it untouched. The setting prefs stays a
node's exceptions.
A default loses to a value the profile saved. betterbird_config shows that drift, betterbird_check
reports it, and betterbird_config_apply clears it while Betterbird is quit. keep proposes a node layer
instead of writing user.js. betterbird_prefs now reads Betterbird's real defaults from omni.ja, and
withholds of mailnews.* only what names an account. The default-client ask is decided from its own
policy entry, not from the first thing the policy lacks.
mesh/merge-gate head 481e44cdaa29 merged into trunk 23ea0f431faf — pass: builds betterbird, sent nowhere; no bus step; 1 wait(s) for a person; every machin…
mesh/repo-check head 481e44cdaa29 merged into trunk 23ea0f431faf — pass: its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-…
Betterbird's own default asks at every start with a window to become the default for mail, news, feeds and
calendar files. The policy locks mail.shell.checkDefaultClient off, which wins over a profile's own value, and
betterbird_check says when a node would still ask.
A module that cannot set Betterbird up is of little use (the operator,
2026-10-12). The module now declares the community package absent and
unpacks the pinned upstream release where that package had it, so the same
profile opens; places the enterprise policy that turns Betterbird's updater
off and force-installs Owl from the xpi the mesh pinned by its vendor's
digest (never in a repository); and takes the operator's accounts from the
trusted setting accounts, without any password or token: an account the
profile already holds is adopted under its own keys, a new one is created
under the module's mesh_ keys, an ambiguous one is refused with the remedy,
and the account lists are only written into. betterbird_accounts says the
profile's accounts by count and proposes the setting built from them for the
operator's Approve. Every new build waits for the operator's push. The
reminder test is visibly a test (MESH TEST band, event name) and its
description says it opens a window on the operator's screen.
jochen