jochen ed66a2e873 issue 800: fix review round 1 findings in mesh-mail-notifier
Flush now sorts accounts instead of walking a map, so notice order is
stable. A failed node-notifier.send keeps its mail pending and retries
at most once a minute, without holding up other accounts' notices, and
the failure is kept in the Store for a new health tool
(mail_notifier_health) that is unhealthy past ten minutes of failure.
The burst rule now follows the lead's reading of ADR 0378 S9: within an
account's sliding minute, the first three qualifying mails are shown
one by one and the rest are folded into one notice at the window's
end; there is no separate quiet-gap timer. The dedupe key is the
account and message id, falling back to folder/uidvalidity/uid only
when no message id is given, so a UIDVALIDITY reset cannot suppress a
new mail, and a redelivered event already buffered is never recounted.
status now lists every granted account, not only those with a notice,
and caches mail-store.accounts for a minute.
2026-10-15 17:54:27 +02:00

mesh-catalog

The Novox Mesh catalogue. The modules the mesh builds, provisions and runs — as manifests, one per module under modules/.

This is data, not a control-plane concern. The manifests describe what a module is: what it provides, what it requires, the seats it claims, the resources the host applies for it. The engine that reads them — parsing, eligibility resolution, sealing, declaration emission — lives in the control plane (novox/mesh-controller, internal/catalogue), which consumes this repository as a build source. The host (novox/mesh-host) applies the declarations the control plane emits. Neither is here.

What a module is, and is not

A module is one thing the mesh can run, named once, described completely by its manifest. A manifest names its image (pinned by digest), the resources the host owns for it (directories, files, the container, the private network it joins), what it requires from a provider and what it provides to consumers, and the sealed secrets it needs filled on the machine.

  • Core mesh components are not modules. The node host, the foundation, the control-plane contexts and the surfaces are the mesh itself; they ship as their own repositories (mesh-host, mesh-foundation, mesh-controller, mesh-surfaces, mesh-sdk), not from here.
  • Standalone applications are not here either. A larger application lives in its own repository with its manifest at the root, registered with the mesh as a build source (novox/hq ADR 0010). This repository holds the modules the mesh maintains as its shared catalogue; an application the mesh merely hosts keeps its manifest beside its own code.

So there is one home for the catalogue the mesh owns, and every application that runs on the mesh rather than being of it carries its own — both reach the pipeline the same way, as a registered source.

Layout

modules/<name>.json      one manifest per module

Flat, because the catalogue's shape carries no meaning: a module is found by its name and described by its manifest, and what relates two modules — a shared seat, a claim, a provider/consumer edge — is data inside the manifests, not a directory the tree encodes (novox/hq, the domain-grouping question closed in favour of seats, claims and tags).

The manifest contract

The shape a manifest must satisfy is owned by the control plane's catalogue engine and is what validates a manifest before a machine ever sees it — a stray key, a consumer contributing the wrong provision field, an image that nothing builds. That validation belongs with this repository and is being re-homed here from mesh-controller; until it is, the pipeline is the gate — it builds each module and refuses a manifest it cannot resolve.

Where the reasoning lives

Design and decisions are in novox/hq:

  • 02-DECISIONS/0002-everything-is-a-module.md — one unit, no second mechanism
  • 02-DECISIONS/0010-applications-live-in-their-own-repository.md — why applications are not here
  • 02-DECISIONS/0030-the-repository-structure.md — the repositories, and the open tier-4 question this repository answers
  • 03-DESIGN/00-as-is/10-module-catalogue.md — the catalogue's shape, and what it records
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Novox Mesh — the catalogue. Module manifests the mesh builds, provisions and runs. Data, not a control-plane concern.
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