If you're an admin or project lead at a large organisation, you can uncross those fingers — project roles have made their way into JIRA 3.7! This means developers, testers, admins, and other various users can be grouped together according to their role. Project leads even get to edit their own ‘roles’ in the JIRA Enterprise Version.
As with user groups, project roles receive the same permissioning and notification schemes. The big difference is easy precision — roles make it easy to send updates to and set permissions for the appropriate people. Roles can be specified on a per-project basis whereas user groups can’t.
It’s probably worth mentioning that you can continue using user groups or migrate to project roles. Your choice. Don’t worry — we’ll have a converter that will help you transfer existing user groups into the appropriate project roles. And, if you’re not ready to switch over yet, there’s no rush.
JIRA 3.7 isn’t due out for another few weeks but, as you can see, we're very excited about this major development. Of course, there are additional new, useful enhancements in store too…those will have to wait for the actual 3.7 release notes though. :)
8 Comment(s)
Sounds great! Will we be able to add custom roles? e.g. 'Escalation Managers'
By Tom Crowder at November 6, 2006 8:06 PM
You betcha! Create and customise roles so that they work for your organisation.
By Laurel at November 7, 2006 10:37 AM
Is there any chance we can map these new roles to LDAP groups?
By Ed Wittmann at November 10, 2006 5:09 AM
Great!, this helps with the painful tasks of admin several projects at the same time and make easy to isolate users and projects from each other.
By conver at November 11, 2006 5:08 PM
Finally! That was the single big issue that's been annoying me for ages. That made my day... can't wait for the release :-)
By Carsten Pfeiffer at November 18, 2006 12:05 AM
Good job! In our organization we were just working out how to organize permissions and security schemes for the different roles. We handle multiple projects and every project has its own hierarchy of developers, pm and consultants. Therefore we ended up with a moltitude of different groups, each one tailored for a specific project ...
By Riccardo Govoni at November 22, 2006 12:27 AM
when will 3.7 be out? approx release date? i had begun implementing jira internally but i want to wait for 3.7 lest i have to change my user implementation
By bhavin at November 23, 2006 5:26 AM
We are really glad that the Project Roles feature will be useful. Thanks to all who have replied.
We are hoping to publicly release JIRA 3.7 Beta some time next week. The date of the final release will depend on the feedback that we will receive from the beta.
Unfortunately, it will not be possible to link Roles to LDAP groups.
By Anton Mazkovoi at November 23, 2006 9:40 AM