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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