Project role memberships are defined per project. However, there are cases where certain users or groups need to be members of a given project role by default. In fact, JIRA has the following default members out of the box:
With the default members, users are automatically added to the project role when a new project is created; this greatly reduces the amount of manual work required from a JIRA administrator.
Proceed with the following steps to define the default membership for project roles:
- Navigate to Administration | Issues | Roles.
- Click on the Manage Default Members link for the project role you want to configure.
- Click on the Edit link of the Default Users column to add users to the project role.
- Click on the Edit link of the Default Groups column to add groups to the project role, as shown in the following screenshot:
Once you have assigned users and groups as the default members of a project role, any newly created project will have those users and groups added to the role. A good practice is to use groups for the default project role membership, as a user's role and responsibilities are likely to change over time.
It is important to note that the changes to the default membership will not be retrospectively applied to existing projects.