As you have seen, groups are collections of users and are applied globally in JIRA to all projects. JIRA also offers another way of grouping users, which is applied on the project level only.
Similar to users and groups, project roles are maintained by the JIRA administrator through the Project Role Browser page. There is a slight difference, however, because since project roles are specific to projects, JIRA administrators only define what roles are available in JIRA and their default members. Each project's administrators (discussed in later sections) can further define each role's membership for their own projects, overriding the default assignment. We will first look at what JIRA administrators can control through the Project Role Browser page and then look at how project administrators can fine-tune the membership assignment later.
Perform the following steps to access the Project Role Browser page:
Browse to the JIRA administration console.
Select the...