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Why does JIRA add a random selection of users to new projects?

Tom Cowles

When setting up a new project, JIRA adds the same random selection of users to the project by default. Almost all of these people have nothing to do with the project, and almost all aren't even employed by our company. I can't find anywhere on the site where these users appear as a group, or as a default group.

Anybody know why this is, and how I can stop it from happening?

Thanks in advance

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Have a look in Admin -> Roles and check who is set up in the "default" for each

Tom Cowles

But this happens without me assigning any roles to a project... the only roles I ever need to assign are developers, and administrators, both of which only contain relevant people. However, Jira is assigning people before I've had a chance to

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Roles are global containers, they exist across all projects automatically, you don't add them to projects at all. If a project exists, it has all the roles on the list.

Tom Cowles

So how would I go about choosing which roles appear by default? Obviously I don't want group "Clients at company X" appearing for a project for "company Y" without my having configured it so

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