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Summary

New email notifications:

  • Storage warnings: organization owner and admins are emailed when used storage reaches 90% and 100% of the included storage. Checked after each storage scan and after dataset uploads. Sent thresholds are recorded in a new table (organization_storageWarnings) and re-armed once usage drops 5 points below them, so hovering near a threshold doesn't cause repeated mails.
  • Access changes: users are emailed when someone else shares an annotation or dataset with their teams (only users who could not see it before), transfers an annotation to them, or changes their team memberships or roles (admin, dataset manager, team manager).
  • Manual task assignment: the assignee is emailed when a task is manually assigned to them ("Manually Assign to User"). Automatic assignments send nothing.

Notes for reviewers:

  • Changes made by the user themselves, and deactivated or unlisted users, never trigger mails. Newly activated users only get the existing activation mail.
  • Mails are assembled and sent in the background (NotificationMailService), so mail failures never fail the request.
  • New config: webKnossos.storageWarning.{enabled, thresholdsPercent}, mail.notifications.{accessChanges, manualTaskAssignments}. All enabled by default.
  • Bulk "transfer all active tasks" of a project does not notify (would send one mail per task).
  • No per-user opt-out yet.

Steps to test:

  • Set mail.logToStdout = true (or configure SMTP)
  • Set a small includedStorage for your organization, trigger a storage scan (yarn enable-storage-scan / upload a dataset), check the warning mail is logged once for 90% and once for 100%
  • Share an annotation / dataset with a team, check members are notified, but not yourself
  • As admin, add another user to a team or make them dataset manager, check the access-changed mail
  • Manually assign a task to another user, check the task-assigned mail with a working link

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  • Added changelog entry (create a $PR_NUMBER.md file in unreleased_changes or use ./tools/create-changelog-entry.py)
  • Updated documentation if applicable
  • Considered common edge cases

… task assignments

Warn organization owners and admins when used storage reaches 90% and 100%,
notify users when annotations or datasets are shared with their teams, an
annotation is transferred to them, their teams or roles change, or a task is
manually assigned to them.
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The changes add email notifications for sharing, annotation transfers, access changes, and manual task assignments. They also add configurable storage-usage warnings, persist crossed thresholds, and check those thresholds during storage refreshes.

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User Notifications

Layer / File(s) Summary
Notification mail content and settings
app/mail/DefaultMails.scala, app/views/mail/*, app/utils/WkConf.scala, conf/application.conf
Adds mail builders and templates for sharing, transfers, access changes, and task assignments. Adds configuration flags for access-change and manual-task-assignment emails.
Recipient selection and notification rules
app/models/user/NotificationMailService.scala, test/backend/NotificationMailTestSuite.scala
Adds recipient filtering and notification rules for sharing, transfers, access changes, and task assignments. Tests cover access-change descriptions and annotation-sharing email content.
Change triggers and supporting documentation
app/controllers/AnnotationController.scala, app/controllers/DatasetController.scala, app/controllers/TaskController.scala, app/controllers/UserController.scala, docs/sharing/annotation_sharing.md, docs/tasks_projects/tasks.md, docs/users/access_rights.md, unreleased_changes/10089.md
Calls the notification service after the related changes. Updates documentation and release notes with notification details.

Storage Warnings

Layer / File(s) Summary
Threshold records and schema
schema/schema.sql, schema/evolutions/186-storage-warnings.sql, schema/evolutions/reversions/186-storage-warnings.sql, app/models/organization/Organization.scala
Adds the organization storage-warning table, its migration and reversion, and DAO methods to insert and delete threshold records.
Threshold checks and warning emails
app/utils/WkConf.scala, conf/application.conf, app/models/storage/StorageWarningService.scala, app/mail/DefaultMails.scala, app/views/mail/storageWarning.scala.html, test/backend/NotificationMailTestSuite.scala
Adds configured threshold checks, warning-record re-arming, warning emails, and tests for percentage calculations and warning-mail content.
Storage scan integration and documentation
app/models/storage/UsedStorageService.scala, docs/users/organizations.md, unreleased_changes/10089.md
Checks thresholds after storage report updates and logs warning failures without failing the storage operation. Documents the warning emails.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 8b6c8

Some users who gain dataset access through a newly shared team will not receive the intended email if they administer another organization. This is a bounded notification gap that should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3402e

The new sharing emails can disclose dataset-identifying information when permission and membership changes race with delivery. Existing authentication and dataset-access checks remain in place, and notification links do not themselves grant access. The identified exposure is limited to metadata; broader rollout behavior remains incompletely verified.

Retained concerns

  • Low · security · inferred: Background sharing mail uses captured newly granted team IDs but queries membership later, without rechecking current dataset access. If a grant is revoked before recipient lookup and a user subsequently joins that team, the earlier callback can send dataset and team names to someone who never held dataset access. This requires authorized sharing and membership transitions plus asynchronous interleaving; the email link does not grant additional authority.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The traced request requires existing dataset-edit authority and can notify members of newly added, requester-selectable teams. The demonstrated new exposure is metadata delivered to account mailboxes, not dataset contents, credentials, or arbitrary caller-supplied email addresses. A strict single-organization recipient bound cannot be asserted where pre-existing foreign-team memberships exist.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A grant can be committed, revoked, and followed by a membership addition before its background recipient query completes. Because that query still uses the original added-team IDs, it can select a newly joined user who never held dataset access and export identifying metadata by email. The canonical security input contains no retained verified findings; this is an inferred architecture concern, not a verified exploitation result.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The sharing entrypoint uses SecuredAction, checks dataset edit authority, and filters requested teams through requester-visible or editable team queries. SQLDAO applies access predicates to dataset and team reads. These controls resolve the supplied immediate authentication and authorization proof gaps.
  • observed — The dataset read endpoint independently performs an access-controlled lookup. Its policy allows public datasets, matching-organization administrative access, or current dataset/folder team membership. The notification URL provides no token that bypasses these checks.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Organization-scoped warning keys and conflict-ignoring inserts suppress repeated claims for an already recorded threshold. Organization deletion cascades warning cleanup, and recipient lookup explicitly selects active owners/admins of that organization. Usage sampling, re-arming, recording, and delivery remain separate operations rather than one atomic transition.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define whether notification eligibility follows event-time authorization or current access, and bind recipient selection to that policy. For a current-access policy, revalidate dataset access and user eligibility before constructing metadata-bearing mail, and suppress stale pending grants. A final application check reduces the race but cannot retract email already handed to SMTP.
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@normanrz I think these email notification are useful addition. Some address general organization/plan limits and others target collaboration features and team work.
Do you agree (before we review this in-depth)?

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Review comments at @app/mail/DefaultMails.scala:
- Line 420: Percent-encode datasetName as a path segment before interpolating it
into the notification URL, so reserved characters such as # and ? remain part of
the dataset name. Add a test verifying the generated link for a name containing
reserved characters.

Review comments at @app/models/storage/StorageWarningService.scala:
- Line 59: In the storage-warning flow, resolve recipients with
findMultiUsersOfOrganizationOwnerAndAdmins before calling insertStorageWarnings;
keep the notification conditional on newlyRecordedCount being greater than zero
and reuse the resolved recipients when sending mail.

Review comments at @app/models/user/NotificationMailService.scala:
- Line 77: Add a shared eligibility predicate in NotificationMailService that
rejects deactivated and unlisted users. Apply it in notifyAnnotationTransferred,
notifyTaskAssigned, and notifyAccessChanged before resolving each recipient’s
MultiUser record; check both userBefore and userAfter in notifyAccessChanged and
assignee in notifyTaskAssigned.
- Line 113: Update the prior-access role check in the notification filter so
admin or dataset-manager status suppresses sharing notifications only when the
user’s organization matches the dataset’s organization; preserve the existing
role checks and use the organization fields shown in the diff.

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I am ok with adding these emails. I think we should add user settings so that users can pick what they want to be notified about. Otherwise, I am afraid they'll be unhappy about too many emails.

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Yes, notification setting are generally a good idea. I am not to worried for the moment. All the admin emails are relevant and should never be disabled. The user facing one (team membership changes, task assignments, ...) happen very infrequently.

The user list activates users and configures their teams in two separate
requests, so the access change mail followed right after the activation mail.
Dataset names may contain characters that break the mail link's URL path.
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before I review in depth: I see that there are still unresolved coderabbit comments – are those relevant?

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A failed recipient lookup after recording a threshold would suppress the
warning until usage dropped below the re-arm margin. Transfers and manual
task assignments no longer notify deactivated users, who cannot log in.
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before I review in depth: I see that there are still unresolved coderabbit comments – are those relevant?

They are resolved now.

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Thanks for pushing user convenience!

I have a couple of thoughts

  • I suggest to be explicit in naming these services/configs that this is about emails, and not the UI
  • Should other notifications be moved to this service? Which emails count as a notification, which don’t?
  • For the access-changed notifications, I wonder if we can somehow reuse the access queries from the DAOs directly, rathe than duplicating the logic here. That is error-prone. For example, annotations shared with a team are not listed to users who do not have dataset list access. They would now get an Email anyway. Also, for public datasets they now get an email on team sharing, even though they could already see it before.

if (numBytes < 1000) 0 else math.min((math.log10(numBytes.toDouble) / 3).toInt, units.length - 1)
val value = numBytes / math.pow(1000, exponent)
if (exponent == 0) s"$numBytes B" else "%.1f %s".formatLocal(Locale.ROOT, value, units(exponent))
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should be moved to the trait Formatter. Also I’d skip the formatLocal and just make the format explicit.

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Comment thread conf/application.conf
trialLeadTimesDays = [7] # trials are short, so they only get a single reminder shortly before expiry
tickerInterval = 6 hours
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storageWarning {

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storageWarning {
storageWarningEmails {

(I would try to make this explicit where possible throughout the code, that this is all about emails, as opposed to notifications in the wk UI)

Comment thread schema/schema.sql
CONSTRAINT validOrganizationId CHECK (_organization ~* '^[A-Za-z0-9\-_. ]+$')
);

CREATE TABLE webknossos.organization_storageWarnings(

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CREATE TABLE webknossos.organization_storageWarnings(
CREATE TABLE webknossos.organization_sentStorageWarningEmails(

"treat any usage as exceeded if no storage is included" in {
assert(usagePercent(0, 0) == 0.0)
assert(usagePercent(1, 0).isPosInfinity)
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I thought unset usedStorage should mean infinite storage for an organization?

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