Jira's **Components** help managing ownership and responsabilities within a project. It is very similar to OpenProject's **Categories** but goes a couple of steps further.

<figure class="table op-uc-figure_align-center op-uc-figure"><table class="op-uc-table"><thead class="op-uc-table--head"><tr class="op-uc-table--row"><th class="op-uc-table--cell op-uc-table--cell_head"><p class="op-uc-p">Jira's Components</p></th><th class="op-uc-table--cell op-uc-table--cell_head"><p class="op-uc-p">OpenProject's Categories (currently)</p></th><th class="op-uc-table--cell op-uc-table--cell_head"><p class="op-uc-p">OpenProject's Categories (future)</p></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr class="op-uc-table--row"><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><p class="op-uc-p">Scoped to one project</p></td><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><p class="op-uc-p">Scoped to one project</p></td><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><p class="op-uc-p"><i>unchanged</i></p></td></tr><tr class="op-uc-table--row"><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><p class="op-uc-p">Component name</p></td><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><p class="op-uc-p">Name</p></td><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><p class="op-uc-p"><i>unchanged</i></p></td></tr><tr class="op-uc-table--row"><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><p class="op-uc-p">Description (optional)</p></td><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><p class="op-uc-p"><i>n/a</i></p></td><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><p class="op-uc-p">Description (short text field, optional)</p></td></tr><tr class="op-uc-table--row"><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><p class="op-uc-p">Component Lead</p></td><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><p class="op-uc-p"><i>n/a</i></p></td><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><p class="op-uc-p">Responsable</p></td></tr><tr class="op-uc-table--row"><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><p class="op-uc-p">Default assignee</p></td><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><p class="op-uc-p">Assignee</p></td><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><p class="op-uc-p">Default assignee</p></td></tr><tr class="op-uc-table--row"><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><ul class="op-uc-list"><li Begin of the insertionclass="op-uc-list--item" data-list-item-id="e9e69adf9547771ea377eed5bf205f5ad"><pEnd of the insertion Begin of the deletion class="op-uc-list--item"><pEnd of the deletion class="op-uc-p">"Component Lead"</p></li></ul></td><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><p class="op-uc-p"><i>n/a</i></p></td><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><p class="op-uc-p">Category responsable</p></td></tr><tr class="op-uc-table--row"><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><ul class="op-uc-list"><li Begin of the insertionclass="op-uc-list--item" data-list-item-id="e0073f8195392f49ec0ad186b4ccda27b"><pEnd of the insertion Begin of the deletion class="op-uc-list--item"><pEnd of the deletion class="op-uc-p">"Project default"</p></li></ul></td><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><p class="op-uc-p"><i>n/a</i></p></td><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><p class="op-uc-p"><i>unclear, as OpenProject does not have a concept of default assignee per project. OpenProject has project attributes of type "User". We might could use such a field?&nbsp;</i></p></td></tr><tr class="op-uc-table--row"><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><ul class="op-uc-list"><li Begin of the insertionclass="op-uc-list--item" data-list-item-id="ec0bebcd13816f24c0f117143427b86ae"><pEnd of the insertion Begin of the deletion class="op-uc-list--item"><pEnd of the deletion class="op-uc-p">"Project lead"</p></li></ul></td><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><p class="op-uc-p"><i>n/a</i></p></td><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><p class="op-uc-p"><i>unclear, as OpenProject does not have a concpet of "Project Lead". OpenProject has project attributes of type "User". We might could use such a field?&nbsp;</i></p></td></tr><tr class="op-uc-table--row"><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><ul class="op-uc-list"><li Begin of the insertionclass="op-uc-list--item" data-list-item-id="eea3822ce56dc1cc11b500a735134cd0c"><pEnd of the insertion Begin of the deletion class="op-uc-list--item"><pEnd of the deletion class="op-uc-p">"unassigned"</p></li></ul></td><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><p class="op-uc-p"><i>currently an empty assignee field in the category form</i></p></td><td class="op-uc-table--cell"><p class="op-uc-p"><i>needs to be more explicit</i></p></td></tr></tbody></table></figure>

The implementation needs to also extend

* To be clarified: Maybe we need an extra notifications based on the Begin of the insertion&quot;Responsible&quot;End of the insertion Begin of the deletion &quot;Responsable&quot;End of the deletion role of a component?