New projects inherit default list of People (Jira Cloud)

[Lisa Mitchell]

Every project we create, whether or not its configuration is based on an existing project, lists the same default project roles, groups, and individuals in the People tab. It's not clear to me how to change those defaults.

We've also found recently that creating new Project roles on an entirely different project now means those additional Project Roles are also in the People tab on every new project, despite the new project not using the same schemes (permissions, notifications, etc).

[Joe Pitt · Accepted solution]

Project roles are universal. Because of that I never set default members in project roles which is what is happening to you. The JIRA admin will need to eliminate the default members

[Ollie Guan · Accepted solution]

Hi @Lisa Mitchell ,

You can use project roles to associate users and/or groups with specific projects. The table below shows all the project roles that are available in Jira. Use this screen to add, edit and delete project roles. You can also click 'View Usage' to see which projects, permission schemes and notification schemes are using project roles.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiracloud/managing-project-roles-776636382.html