How does the people list in project settings come from?

Question

Hi There,

It seems even I create a brand new project in Jira. There's a list in Project Setting>People. I thought I must add people manually for each project. Could anyone advise why this happened?

Thanks,

Olive

Jack Brickey · Answer

What users are added? Do they mirror some other project? I can’t really assess the cause. Another theory - someone else added them.

Olive Sun · Answer

Actually I just create a new one and didn't copy from any existing project.

Jack Brickey · Answer

Hmmm, how did you create the project? By chance did you use an existing project to inherit the config?

here is an article that discusses this topic - create-a-new-project . Note I do not know if this result in inheriting people or not. I haven’t use “inherit” in a long time.