[Architecture] Enabling better collaboration by allowing users to see each other...

[Steven Githens]

Hi Tony,

This sounds great.  Did you make the change? ( I’m a dev so I’m not sure I would have noticed it not happening ).

-Steve


On Jul 10, 2014, at 10:11 PM, Tony Atkins <tony at raisingthefloor.org> wrote:

> Hi, All:
> 
> Till pointed out recently that it's very difficult to involve people in issues using shares and mentions, because of the way our JIRA instance is configured:
> 
> http://issues.gpii.net/browse/GPII-869
> 
> Right now, we only allow our developers to see the list of users on our JIRA instance, which means that only developers can easily share tickets using the built in share and "at mention" mechanisms.
> 
> I would propose opening this up so that people can more easily involve other members of the community who we have not set up as developers in our instance.  This seems much more in keeping with our overall philosophy of inclusion.
> 
> The only small concern is that the "browse user" permission allows users to see each other's email address.  If this is a concern at all, I would propose configuring JIRA to not show email addresses.  It will still be possible to share content with other users through mentions and shares.
> 
> The model is similar to LinkedIn, where you only know the user's LinkedIn credentials and they can choose whether to share anything further with you.
> 
> I am putting this out for discussion today.  If there are no objections by close of business tomorrow, I will go ahead and allow all JIRA users to see other users and hide user email addresses in JIRA.  Each change is easily reversible if there are any concerns or we choose to do things differently.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Tony
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