How duty rules work

Read which changes a duty rule checks and who it does not bind.

What is checked

A rule refuses, or sends for approval, each of these changes when it would give one person both duties:

• changing someone's role on People;
• giving a branch or project role;
• lending a role, or giving one of your own roles;
• naming an administrator;
• editing a role or permission group that people hold;
• moving a project to another branch;
• accepting an invitation;
• opening a project, when that makes its creator the Project lead.

A change that cannot wait, such as a loan, an invitation or a new project, is refused either way.

What is not checked

• A rule is about what people can do, not about role names: it keeps working when a role is copied, renamed or edited.
• The owner is outside the rules, and emergency access is not counted. Every use of emergency access, the owner's included, is listed in the next access review.
• Lowering someone's role inside a conflict that is already listed is never refused. Only a duty held in a new place counts as a new conflict.

Ownership handover

When ownership is handed over, the former owner becomes an Admin unless that breaks a rule or waits for approval; until then they are a Member. The handover completes either way.