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User admin approval - Admin email notification

Problem to solve

As part of &4491 , administrators should receive an email when a user registers for their instance.

Intended users

User experience goal

An administrator can easily tell if the user should be someone they approve or not.

Proposal

  • Send an email to instance administrator when a new user registers for their instance. The email should contain:
  • The email should have the user's name, username, and email, with a link to approve or disapprove the request in the user page in the admin panel.

Email Title

GitLab Account Request

Email Body

Hi (admin name),

(name) has asked for a GitLab account on your instance:

 * Username : (username)
 * Email (email)

Click (here) to approve or deny this request.

Further details

Permissions and Security

Documentation

Availability & Testing

What risks does this change pose to our availability?

This is low risk to GitLab.com availability. However, if for some reason, notification emails do not go out, there could be delay in user signup process to complete causing bad user experience. A test should be added at feature level to ensure emails are sent out.

What additional test coverage or changes to tests will be needed?

Tests should be added add feature level (or lower) to ensure emails are sent out on registration. Also ensure that the email is not sent out when this setting is not enabled.

No new end-to-end tests needed.

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

What is the type of buyer?

Is this a cross-stage feature?

Links / references

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