How are decommission of Jira projects being handled?

[Alfredo Negrete]

Looking to get feedback on ways to handle decommissioning of Jira projects.  I'm more referring to the data of those projects.  Do you just delete the data? Create exports of the data before deleting it?  Create an extract of all users?  What if the project wants to access data at future date? Do you disable all users and grant those users coming back access again?

[Joe Pitt · Accepted solution]

On server you should apply a permission scheme that doesn't allow anyone access if there is ANY possibility of someone needing to see the data. The JIRA admin can give browse access if needed in the future. There isn't a good way to recover a project if deleted except by restoring a JIRA backup into a NEW instance.

[Charlie Misonne]

Agreed. You can adapt your permissions scheme to hide your project or make it read-only.

On Jira Dacta Center you can archive projects. But on Jira server that's not possible.

Regarding users: if they need to access the data they need a license. If they don't you can disable them indeed.