Get notification when project permission changes

[Mike Rathwell]

Has anyone had a request for getting a notification when project permission changes? I have a rather pointed need from one of our teams to know, real-time, if project permissions change on their project.

Any ideas?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

There aren't any events fired by project permission changes.  I guess the obvious question is why your teams would not know that an admin is making a change for them?  Good admin practice would be changing permissions because a team has requested it, and after everyone affected has been told.

[Mike Rathwell]

Hey @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-,

I wholly agree with you. However, this is the... Legal... department's project and, as we all know, lawyers want things a certain way even if there isn't a meaningful reason for it.

I had been in a situation where there were way too many admins (historical thing) but I have long since slammed that door shut. There is me and one other guy with admin rights. There had been some "events" that weren't optimal (and even took the system out when a massively expensive and buggy script listener was YOLO'd in) that precipitated me taking it away from all of them.

I'll take it back to the requesting department and suggest that there isn't really anything they "need" there

Thanks

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Ahh, Legal, yes.  I understand.

I have to resort to balancing "software is mostly designed to work properly, vs according to legal demands", but obviously, a lot less bluntly than that!

My instinct is to get them to draw up a contract that boils down to "admins do not touch our projects until they have our permission in writing", but I don't want to encourage them.

[Mike Rathwell]

Indeed. I find that I am cautious about what I might "suggest" as something as simple as  "contract" for permission changes (given that "contract" has special meaning to such humans) might rapidly take on a life of it's own and end up with a massively complex Jira workflow and various assignments throughout its life to make a simple change...

Oh well; keeps me off the street at night.