Basic implementation

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Goal

• Increase user acceptance of ownCloud service
• Improve ownCloud usability

Basic Idea:

• Every user can create groups
• Every User can share with all existing groups

Group Roles

• Roles: Groupadmin and Member
• All ownCloud Users can create groups and become groupadmin of this group

Group Management

• User has overview of his groups (he is groupadmin)
• User has overview of his group memberships (he is member)
• User gets notification when added to group

As groupadmin, I can

• rename, delete group
• add, remove users to/from group
• set member / groupadmin role on group members
• not leave group if no groupadmin is left (but can delete group)

As member, I can

• see members of a group
• leave a group

ownCloud admins (who are in the "admin" group) can perform any operation that a group admin could.

Core requirements

• REQUIRES: Provide API to let apps register their own Sabre plugins core#26195 to allow apps to register Sabre plugins (because in the future all APIs are based on Webdav)
• REQUIRES: support for group display names: Group name vs display name core#7918

Backend tasks

• implement group backend for user groups: Implement group backend #1

• new DB tables to store these groups: Implement group backend #1

• generate unique group ids to avoid collisions: Implement group backend #1

• Webdav APIs for group management: Webdav API for groups management #3

• transfer ownership must work with those

• send notification when added to group: Send notification when added to group #4

Frontend tasks

• groups and membership management: Frontend for custom groups management #5

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• hide custom groups from users page: Hide custom groups from admin / users page #6

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• pagination:
  • backend: Pagination with REPORT #16
  • frontend: Frontend pagination #35
• quicksearch:
  • backend: Pagination with REPORT #16
  • frontend: TODO

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• autocomplete for member field: Autocomplete for the member field #32

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All functionality of customgroups implemented in version v0.1.1.

The remaining things are more for scalability and user experience improvements, listed as separate tickets.