Project roles
As you have seen, groups are collections of users and are applied globally. JIRA also offers another way of grouping users, which is applied on the project level only. JIRA comes with three default project roles out of the box:
Project role |
Description |
---|---|
Administrators |
This project role represents the administrator of the project (for example, the project manager). |
Developers |
This project role represents the developer of the project. |
Users |
This project role represents the user of the project (for example, the tester). |
Project Role Browser
Similar to users and groups, project roles are maintained by the JIRA administrator through the Project Role Browser page. There is a slight difference, however, because since project roles ...
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