- title: 'Developer role providing the ability to import projects to a group' announcement_milestone: '15.8' announcement_date: '2023-01-22' removal_milestone: '16.0' removal_date: '2023-05-22' breaking_change: true body: | The ability for users with the Developer role for a group to import projects to that group is deprecated in GitLab 15.8 and will be removed in GitLab 16.0. From GitLab 16.0, only users with at least the Maintainer role for a group will be able to import projects to that group. stage: manage tiers: issue_url: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/387891