Roles and permissions
There are two roles, and everyone in your workspace has both.
Updated November 4, 2026
Access control in a Joel deployment is flat.
Roles
- Requester: May ask for feedback, reviews, and recommendations. Granted to everyone in the workspace.
- Decision maker: May accept or decline a recommendation. Granted to whoever owns the work.
Declined recommendations
Declined recommendations are noted along with the reason given. Nothing further happens. The note is there so that a later retrospective has the context.
Elevated access
There is no elevated access. Requests that need sign-off from several approvers return JOEL-409 Conflict until one owner is named.
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