Users in the jira-administrators group can create new Jira projects. See the Group Management page for information on who is a member of the jira-administrators group.
Follow the following steps:
- Login to Jira
- From the top menu find the Administration sub-menu and select "Projects"
- From the "Projects" page select "Create Project"
- Fill out the form
- Use incubation request title as Project name
- Choose an appropriate space key from title (for example multi word titles, you might use the first letter of each word in the title)
- Use description from incubation request for project description (if appropriate)
- Find the same Jira user who submitted the incubation request and selected him/her as project lead
- Use Default Notification Scheme
- Use Default Permission Scheme
- Use Default Security Scheme
- Submit form
- Select View members under the Project Roles: option
- Determine the appropriate owner and developer groups for the project based on the Group Management detail. For example any portlet or uPortal related project should use upc-steering-committee as the owner group and upc-portlet-developers as the developer group.
- Set the project owner group using the Edit link in the Groups column for the Administrators role.
- Set the project developers group using the Edit link in the Groups column for the Developers role.
- Select the appropriate Category via the Select Category link.