Redefined Project Teams

Changes Applied to Project Teams

The project team is now simply a list of users and groups who are assigned to the project. Users and members of these groups inherit the roles that are assigned directly to the project team.

When migrating to this model, Hub collected the list of users and groups who were assigned the Project Admin or Developer role in each project. These are the two roles that were marked as team roles by default. These users and groups were then added to the project team.

Users and groups who were assigned any other role that was marked as a team role are still assigned their corresponding roles in a project, however, as these roles are no longer marked as team roles, these users no longer appear as members of the project team. This does not mean that they lose any permissions. Their access rights in the project are not affected.

For additional information, see Manage the Project Team.

Project Owners

When adding the project team as an explicit entity, we also enabled the option to set a specific user as the owner of the project. The project owner is automatically granted the Project Admin role in the project.

As this option did not exist previously, Hub attempts to locate an appropriate owner for each project during the migration. The project owner is set automatically based on the following logic:

• Hub builds a list of users who are granted the Project Admin role in the project. Users who are banned are ignored.
• The list is sorted by the total number of permissions that are assigned to each user.
• The user with the highest number of permissions becomes the project owner. In case of a tie, the user in this subset with the lowest login (when sorted alphabetically in ascending order) is selected.

If there were no users with the Project Admin role, the project owner is not set.

The project owner can be set or changed at any time from the Settings tab of the project page.

Improved Team Management Options

As a result of this update, you can now manage members of the project team directly. You no longer have to rely on team role flags to manage this list of users.

New controls have been added to the team list that let you add or remove users or groups directly on the project profile page.

In addition, the project settings now include a dedicated tab for managing the project team. The Teams tab lets you view a list of project members by group or by user. You can also determine which roles are assigned directly to the project team.

For more information, see Manage the Project Team.

Group Cleanup

During the migration to release version 2017.3.7325, Hub performed a very selected cleanup of groups that were redundant to the new project teams. The purpose of this cleanup was to remove <project name>-team groups. These groups were created automatically when a project was added to Hub. Their purpose was to assign the Developer role to users who were added to the project team based on their membership in these groups. As these groups duplicate role assignments that are now granted directly to members of the project team, Hub attempts to merge these groups into project teams during upgrade.

If all of the following conditions were met, the groups were merged into the project team:

• The group was the only entity that granted the Developer or Project Admin roles in the project.
• The group was already granted the Developer role in the project.
• The group did not have the Auto-join property enabled.
• The group was not set as one of the Auto-join groups for a license or an authentication module.
• The group was not assigned any roles in other projects.

If you did not install release version 2017.3.7325 or subsequent bug-fix releases for Hub 2017.3, this cleanup is performed during the upgrade to version 2017.4.