gem owner -a/r command is used to add or remove owners by an email. This method requires that the user has the gem CLI configures on a host. Option of adding and removing owners through the web UI would facilitate friction-less transfer of gem ownership. To avoid spamming, adding a new owner would require a confirmation from the user being added. We will update the existing POST - /api/v1/gems/[GEM NAME]/owners to follow the same process where a confirmation is required. Additionally, We will make owner add/remove events notifiable, ie users can opt-in to receive email notification about ownership changes of a gem.

We are also hoping to add a new flow for ownership transfers, where users can make ownership request for any gem with less than 100_000 downloads and older than 12 months updated at time. When a gem owner approves an ownership request, the requester would be added as an owner to the gem. Gem owners who are looking for new maintainers/owners would be able to request ownership application. These application will be searchable and listed on a site wide link.

• Related: #2044, #725, #1842
• Prerequisites: Familiarity with rails
• Programming areas include: ruby, rails
• Estimated difficulty level: medium
• Student: Pavan Vachhani
• Mentors: @sonalkr132

RubyGSOC 2020 Final Report

https://vachhanihpavan.github.io/2020-08-21-gsoc-2020-final-report/

Status Updates

Week 12 (08/21/2020)

1. What did you accomplish this past week?
   • Rework on rack-attack rate limiting configuration.
   • Finished final report
2. What obstacles are impeding your progress?
   • None
3. Would you like help from some mentor for this task?
   • No

Week 11 (08/14/2020)

1. What did you accomplish this past week?
   • Resolve review comments on ownership confirmation PR
   • Changed notification from all owners to only removed user on owner removal.
2. What will you do this upcoming week?
   • Get reviews on the PR and resolve the review comments if any.
   • Work on drafting final GSoC report.
3. What obstacles are impeding your progress?
   • None
4. Would you like help from some mentor for this task?
   • No

Week 10 (08/07/2020)

1. What did you accomplish this past week?
   • Finished all tests for ownership transfer PR
2. What will you do this upcoming week?
   • Get review on the PR and resolve the review comments if any.
3. What obstacles are impeding your progress?
   • None
4. Would you like help from some mentor for this task?
   • No

Week 9 (07/31/2020)

1. What did you accomplish this past week?
   • Finished implementation of ownership requests feature
2. What will you do this upcoming week?
   • Start writing tests for ownership calls and requests
   • I18nize strings, add mailers and other improvements
3. What obstacles are impeding your progress?
   • None
4. Would you like help from some mentor for this task?
   • No

Week 8 (07/24/2020)

1. What did you accomplish this past week?
   • Started with implementing ownership call controller and model
2. What will you do this upcoming week?
   • Finish ownership calls UI
   • Start working on ownership requests features
3. What obstacles are impeding your progress?
   • None
4. Would you like help from some mentor for this task?
   • No

Week 7 (07/17/2020)

1. What did you accomplish this past week?
   • Added Rack Attack configuration with tests for rate limiting to prevent abuse of email service.
   • Resolve review comments on Ownership confirmation PR
   • Rename a few terms in Ownership RFC based on community suggestions
2. What will you do this upcoming week?
   • Start working on the ownership transfer part of the project.
   • Will work on writing model, controller and views for ownership calls.
3. What obstacles are impeding your progress?
   • None
4. Would you like help from some mentor for this task?
   • No

Week 6 (07/10/2020)

1. What did you accomplish this past week?
   • UI improvements and code quality improvements rubygems/rubygems.org#2357
2. What will you do this upcoming week?
   • Add rate limiting with Rack Attack on newly added endpoints
3. What obstacles are impeding your progress?
   • None
4. Would you like help from some mentor for this task?
   • No

Week 5 (07/03/2020)

1. What did you accomplish this past week?
   • Resolve the comments by mentor on the PR rubygems/rubygems.org#2357
2. What will you do this upcoming week?
   • Get PR rubygems/rubygems.org#2357 ready for merge.
3. What obstacles are impeding your progress?
   • None
4. Would you like help from some mentor for this task?
   • No

Week 4 (06/26/2020)

1. What did you accomplish this past week?
   • Added unit, functional and UI tests for new features
   • Resolve the comments by mentor on the PR rubygems/rubygems.org#2357
   • Refactor existing mailers to make them DRY rubygems/rubygems.org#2421
2. What will you do this upcoming week?
   • Fix the issues pointed on the PR
   • Work on improving code quality and minimise the changes in existing code.
3. What obstacles are impeding your progress?
   • None
4. Would you like help from some mentor for this task?
   • No

Week 3 (06/19/2020)

1. What did you accomplish this past week?
   • Fixed failing test due to new changes in ownership flow
   • Resolve the comments by mentor on the PR rubygems/rubygems.org#2357
2. What will you do this upcoming week?
   • Fix the issues pointed on the PR
   • Add tests for the new code
3. What obstacles are impeding your progress?
   • None
4. Would you like help from some mentor for this task?
   • No