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 <[email protected]> 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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