Support transferring add-on ownership between AnkiWeb accounts
- Dominant language
- Rust
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Description
Users occasionally ask us to transfer ownership of an add-on from one AnkiWeb account to another (e.g. handing a project off to a community-maintained account). Today this has no clear path, and requests can sit unanswered.
**Goal:** make these requests fast and low-effort to resolve.
**Security requirement:** any transfer flow must require the original owner to confirm the transfer (e.g. via a confirmation link sent to their AnkiWeb email, or a similar out-of-band check). This applies to both self-serve and admin-initiated transfers.
**Proposed, in order of preference:**
1. **Self-serve transfer.** The current owner initiates a transfer from the add-on's page; the recipient confirms via a link sent to their AnkiWeb email, and the original owner confirms from theirs. Nice to have.
2. **Admin panel action.** A private admin UI for AnkiWeb maintainers to reassign an add-on's owner given the source account, destination account, and add-on ID. Must still require confirmation from the original owner's email before the reassignment takes effect. This is the immediate win — unblocks us without needing the full self-serve flow.
3. **Documented manual runbook.** As a stopgap, a short internal doc describing the DB/query steps and verification checks (including email confirmation from the original owner) so any maintainer can handle a request without paging the original author.
**Acceptance:** an incoming transfer request can be fulfilled in minutes, not weeks, without weakening ownership guarantees.
Contributor guide
Research direction
No files or tests are named. Start by tracing the existing add-on ownership, AnkiWeb account, admin-panel, database, and email-confirmation entry points, then compare the admin action with the proposed manual runbook. Done means a transfer can be fulfilled in minutes while requiring confirmation from the original owner's email and preserving ownership guarantees.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- authorization, backend, database
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100