Associating a quality gate with projects

The default quality gate is associated with all projects in the organization that are not explicitly associated with a quality gate.

The default quality gate is associated with all projects that are not explicitly associated with a quality gate. You can explicitly associate a project with a quality gate:

At the quality gate level with the Administer Quality Gates permission. The procedure is explained below.
At the project level with the Administer Quality Gates permission or the Administer Project permission. See the Managing your project's quality gate page for more details.

Last setting overrides principle without a hierarchy

The "last setting overrides" principle applies without a hierarchy: the most recently configured setting will take precedence over all previous settings. For example:

From the Quality Gates page, you first associate quality gate 1 with project 1.
Still from the Quality Gates page, you associate quality gate 2 with project 1. Project 1 is now associated with quality gate 2.
From project 1’s settings, you associate project 1 with quality gate 3. Project 1 is now associated with quality gate 3 (the setting is updated in the Quality Gates page).
From the Quality Gates page, you associate quality gate 1 with project 1. Project 1 is now associated with quality gate 1 (the setting is updated in project 1’s settings).

To avoid misconfigurations, we recommend that in your instance, you perform explicit associations either from the Quality Gates page or from the project settings, but not from both.