dropthejase turns on sharing for projects and tabular reviews

After a stint behind a "Coming soon" tooltip, collaboration is live on dropthejase's fork of Mike.

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Sharing started life hidden - the buttons were there, but a tooltip waved users off while the team worked out the shape of it. In the latest pass, it's switched on: a colleague can be granted access to a project or one of the tabular document reviews that Mike produces, and the access check actually honours that grant.

Getting there required an unglamorous backend fix. The list of who-can-see-what was being stored in a way that the database handed back as raw text rather than a structured list, so permission checks were quietly misreading it. That's now parsed correctly on the way in, which is the difference between sharing that looks like it works and sharing that actually does.

So what Legal teams evaluating Mike for multi-lawyer matters should look at how dropthejase has framed the sharing UX - it's the most concrete model in the fork ecosystem for collaborative review.

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SHA	Subject	Author	Date
`82dd6645`	chore(ui): disable sharing buttons with Coming soon tooltip	Jason Lee	2026-05-15	↗ GitHub
ProjectPage and TabularReviewView sharing/people buttons disabled pending sharing feature implementation.
`5fd946c5`	feat(frontend): enable project and tabular review sharing UI	Jason Lee	2026-05-15	↗ GitHub
Re-enable People button in ProjectPage and TabularReviewView. PeopleModal, backend /people endpoints, and PATCH shared_with were already fully implemented - buttons were just disabled.
`5623a285`	fix(api): parse shared_with jsonb string from Aurora in access checks	Jason Lee	2026-05-16	↗ GitHub
commit body Aurora Data API returns jsonb columns as raw strings. Array.isArray() on a string returns false, causing 404 for all shared project/review access. Add JSON.parse fallback in projects.ts (GET /:id, GET /:id/people), access.ts (checkProjectAccess), and tabular.ts (GET /:id/people).

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