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jochen 1835f0efad betterbird: own Betterbird's whole configuration as settings, shown without a credential (hq issue 586, ADR 0329)
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-…
mesh/delivery superseded: a newer head of the same pull request
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.
2026-10-13 02:03:04 +02:00
jochen 15983e2f96 betterbird: an account's own aliases and identities that do not send by SMTP share no outgoing server, and the pins name their vendors on purpose (review 36, review 35 of mesh-controller #251)
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds betterbird, sent nowhere; no bus step; 1 wait(s) for a person; every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of …
mesh/repo-check pass: its merge-check.sh passed, each part in its toolchain: merge-check.sh (go), merge-check-typescript.sh (typescript)
mesh/delivery failed: its walk failed, carrying its own commit: a gate on a first machine (what it carried put back), a build, a machine
The shared-server check refused an adopted account for its own alias, and
counted Owl's, local folders' and feeds' identities as users of the default
server, though they never send by SMTP. The controller now judges an
upstream pin's host like any name, so each pin declares its vendor.
2026-10-12 14:49:21 +02:00
jochen 263c86d2e5 betterbird: withhold account values in the user.js answer, never write a shared outgoing server, and say a newer Owl as a fact (review 34, hq issue 345, ADR 0317)
The user.js answer carried declared addresses and hosts (ADR 0316 §16). An
adopted identity's outgoing server may be shared with an account the module
does not own, whose sending the declared values would change at every start:
refused with the remedy, since ADR 0317 §2 leaves the identity's server and
the lists as they are; a recorded adoption follows the identity's current
server. Owl installed by policy cannot be removed, so a newer Owl than the
pin is a fact whose remedy is moving the pin.
2026-10-12 14:49:21 +02:00
jochen ec4ab7afe7 betterbird: install Betterbird from its pinned release, ship Owl by policy, and declare the accounts without credentials (hq issue 345, ADR 0316, ADR 0317)
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.
2026-10-12 14:49:21 +02:00