As usually Active Directory is read-only for all incorporated mortals... still Jira users do need to be able to use and manage groups.
As the Jira administrators time is very limited, it's i not possible to manage these groups (inability to rename them being just agravating factor).
As an workaround I managed to trick the Active Directory to get a limited number of groups inside Jira by adding them to AD mailing list that I own. This means that by (de)subscribing mailing lists from my Meta-Jira-Groups mailing list I can add and remove AD groups one by one.
The great thing about this is that each of this groups has its own managers so the management of these groups is externalized to the real owners, falling back to IT but never to Jira admins (great!).
Now the big problem is that we still need to be able to manage same groups inside jira, while having few managed on AD.
How can we do this?
