New role: Project Manager

Until now, only the workspace administrator could manage users in the project. This has changed with this week's release in which we added a new permission role: the Project Manager.

A person with the Project Manager role has full access to the project's source code, pipelines, and sandboxes. They are also entitled to perform the following actions:

• add and remove groups and users from the project
• invite new people directly to the project
• change the roles of the users in the project

Adding Project Managers to projects

To add a person with PM rights to the project, go to the Team tab and click Add people. Look up the person that you want to add, select the role in the right column, and click the button to confirm:

Project Managers vs Custom roles

To add a custom role, go to People → Roles tab from the system dashboard and click the plus button at the bottom:

Here you can set the access scope to each part (module) of the service: source, pipelines, and sandboxes. The Project Team module is by default set to view-only, which means you can only browse your team members.

What's next

The next role that we're going to add will be the Group Manager. A person with this role will be able to add and remove users from their parent group, which also involves managing project access if the group is assigned to a project.