No field-level security permissions in JIRA.. ever?!
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Oct 31, 07

I'm writing in stunned disbelief after discovering that, mere hours ago, the Atlassian team dealt an awful blow to JIRA users around the world; they've decided once and for all to mark Field level security permissions as "Won't Fix".

4+ year old feature request...
400+ votes...
200+ watchers...

The workarounds are rather hacky and frankly don't cut it. I guess we'll have to suck it up or come up with our own hacky solution. Ugh.