Add Status Jira Simplified Workflow

DerivcoITServer

This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: Using the Simplified Workflow

Adding statuses to workflows is usually a JIRA admin functionality. Recently we have noticed non JIRA administrators (rather project administrators) creating statuses on their own on projects that use Simplified workflows.  Why is this the case? Isn't this contradictory to the JIRA permissions?  

We are thus finding large amounts of custom statuses convoluting the statuses page.  How can we prevent this? Should we be concerned about large amounts of these customization's especially these statuses causing issues with JIRA performance in the long run? 

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

No.  It's a deliberate implementation of JIRA Software.

When a "simplified workflow" is chosen, the project administrators are able to do what they want with the list of status in their workflows.

If you want to stop them doing this, you'll need to take away the simplified workflow.  Make a workflow scheme with the workflow(s) you want them to have, and apply it to the project(s).  They won't be able to add/change status any more.

Huge number of status won't make a huge difference to performance, there are many other more important factors.  It can become a pain for admins though.