XP-Dev.com Documentation - User Guide - Permissions
Permissions for projects can only be altered by project owners. Please ensure that you’re the owner before performing these steps
On XP-Dev.com, each person creates their own accounts and these accounts are available system wide. So, when you add or remove a user, you’re actually working on a unique user on the system.
In other words, the user john on Project Sproketts Ltd is the same as the user john on Projekt Spektralz.
Repository permissions are inherited from their parent project. So, a project writer will have write access to the source control repository.
Types of permissions
There are a number of different permission types that can be assigned to users:
- Admins: Project administrators have access to create/delete repositories as well as administer them with respect to configuring them to integrate with various external tools like Twitter, Basecamp, FogBugz, etc. Additionally, project administrators can ammend project permissions (add/remove users) as well.
- Writers: Writers are users who can make and commit changes to the project, but they are not allowed to perform any of the adminstrative tasks like administering repositories or permissions.
- Readers: Readers are users who only have read-only access to the project and can’t make or commit any changes.
Adding Users to a Project
- Select the project Settings tab and then the Permissions tab. Click on the link at the bottom of the page called Assign Permission to a New User:
- There are two ways to add a new user to your project:
- Add an existing XP-Dev.com registered user
- All you have to do is put in the person’s XP-Dev.com username or email. If the system does not find the user for you, it will come back with an error.
- Remember to pick an access control level – either Read, Write or Admin
- Click on Save
- Invite someone using their email address
- If you don’t know the person’s username or he/she doesn’t have a username or email, then just add an email address to send an invitation to your project. Once the new user picks up the invitation (by logging in or registering a new user), he/she will be added immediately to your project.
- Remember to pick an access control level – either Read, Write or Admin
- Click on Invite
- Add an existing XP-Dev.com registered user
Removing Users from a Project
- Select the project Settings tab and then the Permissions tab. Click on the link called Delete Permission for the user that you want to remove from your project and confirm the deletion:
