Feature Request: Group Ownership

I am building a new "GroupRelationship" type called "GroupOwnership". Separating it from "uid"/"Author" field has many advantages.

Problem/Motivation

Using the "author" field of a group is challenging. It's hard to build things that include both the group author and it's members. Views are a totally different relationship structure. They have to be handled differently when displaying and when configuring permissions. It was difficult to add both to a View in a consistent way.

I am building a site using Group module. I want the entity to have a team, but I also want to be able to specify an "owner". I am building a site where content is like google docs or github repos: you can add people and specify an "owner", I want users to be able to "transfer ownership".

At first, I did this with a Role called "owner", but it didn't make sense in the roles field.

Proposed resolution

Add a new "Group Ownership" relationship type.

Remaining tasks

• GroupOwnership relation type
• GroupOwnershipPermissionProvider
• TBD

User interface changes

"Group Ownership" will appear as a possible relationship type, right alongside "Group Membership".

API changes

New GroupRelationType 'group_ownership'.

Data model changes

Does having a new GroupRelationType count?