Current behaviour

Currently, anonymizing a user in Bamboo requires following a series of manual steps using SQL statements, as documented in: Bamboo: Right to erasure – Deleting and/or Modifying PD in Bamboo

This process:

• Must be executed directly against the database.
• Is error-prone and time-consuming.
• Is not accessible to administrators who do not have or should not have database-level access.

Suggested behaviour

Provide a built-in, supported way to anonymize users directly from the Bamboo UI, similar to Bitbucket’s anonymization functionality described here: Users and groups – Deleting a user versus anonymizing a user

Specifically:

• Add an option in user management to anonymize a user (e.g. “Anonymize user”) instead of requiring raw SQL.
• Ensure that personal data (such as username, display name, and email) is removed or replaced while preserving the integrity of build history, logs, and audit records.
• Make this operation available to Bamboo administrators without requiring database access.

Workaround

Follow a series of steps with SQL as documented in Bamboo: Right to erasure - Deleting and/or Modifying PD in Bamboo