Release Management roles and permissions

To perform actions in Release Management, your account must have the required access. This access is controlled by permissions. A permission is the ability to perform a specific action, such as adding and connecting apps, creating releases, or changing connected app settings.

Roles and permissions overview

You can assign different roles to different team members. In Release Management, there are five different roles on three different levels:

• Workspace-level roles: These roles aren't tied to a specific Release Management app, nor can you change them in Release Management. They are fully tied to the Workspace that owns the Bitrise project that the connected app belongs to. The Workspace-level roles are:

  • Workspace owner: Workspace owners have full administrative control over all aspects of an app in Release Management, without any limits or exceptions.
  • Workspace manager: The main purpose of workspace managers is to manage workspace collaboration. In Release Management, they can add a new app when creating a new project and nominate release managers. They, however, can't add a new RM app under an already existing project.
  • Contributor and Viewer: These Workspace-level roles have no default access to Release Management apps.

• Project admin: The only project-level role in Release Management. Adding a user to a project doesn't automatically give them any permissions in Release Management, with the exception of users with the Admin role. Project admins have full administrative rights to apps, builds, Release Management, and app deployment with a few exceptions. They can't add a new app with a new project to Release Management, buy a Standard license, or change the CodePush add-on plan. When adding a new app to Release Management, they can only add it under the project of which they are admin.

• Release Management-level roles: These are the roles you can configure within Release Management.

  • Release manager: The main purpose of release managers is to handle releases to online stores. They can't add new apps or access integrations.
  • App tester: The App tester role is meant for internal testers. They can access an app and its artifacts, and the build distribution and tester groups menu. They have no other access.

Roles and permissions for Release Management apps

Action	Workspace owner	Workspace manager	Project admin	Release manager	App tester
Access all apps of a project
Access a specific app
Access app settings
Access integrations
Access release presets
Access artifacts
Access the list of release managers
Access feature flags
Add a new app to RM with a new project
Add a new app to RM with an existing project
Nominate release managers
Remove an app from RM
Assign a license to an app
Buy a Standard license
Create, edit, and delete feature flag configuration
Create, edit, and delete release presets
Connect an app to a store
Edit app title
Upload, edit, and delete app icon
Upload artifacts
Delete artifacts

Roles and permissions for build distribution and releases

Action	Workspace owner	Workspace manager	Project admin	Release manager	App tester
Access the build distribution menu
Access the tester groups
Access the list of testers
Access the store releases menu
Enable the public install page
Create, modify, delete, and notify tester groups
Add and remove testers in a tester group
Update, approve, and delete assigned tasks
Assign approval tasks to app members
Create, modify, pause, continue, and delete releases
Create and edit instructions for testers in the What to test field
Create and modify store version and localization
Create export compliance information
Submit release for review
Release to store

Roles and permissions for Bitrise CodePush

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Action	Workspace owner	Workspace manager	Project admin	Release manager	App tester
Access CodePush deployments
Access CodePush updates
Create CodePush deployments
Delete CodePush deployments
Update CodePush deployments
Upload CodePush updates
Delete CodePush updates
Update CodePush updates
Promote CodePush updates
Roll back CodePush updates
Manage CodePush code signing private key
Change CodePush add-on plan and tier