User can still trash company-managed projects after I removed him from site-admin group

Question

I'm new to admining a very messy instance of Jira, and we had too many site admins. I've removed most of them from the site-admin group and all other admin groups, but it seems like one, perhaps more, can still delete/trash company-managed projects. Is there something I'm missing or is this a bug I need to escalate to Atlassian? This is a big problem where integrations are concerned.

Laurien Scoville · Answer

Thank you so much for your thorough responses, they have been very helpful!

Peter DeWitt · Answer

@Laurien Scoville , Unfortunately no. my assumption is that this person is a release manager (or fills that role) and needs to be able to update components & versions. Unfortunately, in cloud, the Administer Projects permission allows a user to do the following:

They can:

* move projects to trash,

* edit project role membership

* edit project components,

* edit project versions,

* edit some project details – project name, URL, project lead, and project description.

for reference:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiracloud/permissions-for-company-managed-projects-1001823931.html

There is an open suggestion to allow these to be configured separately:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-34015

I would vote & watch this request.

-pjd

Laurien Scoville · Answer

Is there no way to remove the ability to delete the project from a Project Administrator, then? This person needs to remain the Project Administrator.