Project roles
As you have seen, groups are collections of users and are applied globally. JIRA offers another way of grouping users, which is applied on the project level only:
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Project role |
Description |
|---|---|
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Administrators |
This project role represents the administrator of the project (for example, project manager). |
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Developers |
This project role represents the developer of the project. |
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Users |
This project role represents the user of the project (for example, tester). |
Project Role Browser
Similar to users and groups, project roles are maintained by the JIRA administrator through the Project Role Browser. There is a slight difference, however, since project roles are specific to projects, JIRA administrators only define what roles are available in JIRA and their default members. Each project's administrators (discussed in later sections) can further define each role's membership for their own projects, overriding the default assignment. We will first look at what JIRA administrators can...
