Is there a way to exclude certain users logged time from the total estimate time?

[Alyse Weatherford]

Currently, when a user logs time to a project, the remaining hours are updated regardless if the user is a developer or not.  

So for example:

Original estimate = 40 hours

Dev logs 2 hours

PM logs 2 hours

Remaining estimate = 36 hours

We would like to exclude the PM/BA time logged in the remaining estimate calc so that there are really 38 dev hours remaining. We still want the other users to log time we just don't want it included in the remaining hours. 

[Radek Dostál]

Short answer is you can't do that automatically.

When you're logging hours you can actually specify what happens to remaining estimate (substract automatically, set to a fixed value, ..), but I honestly don't believe you will get people to do that. It's easily missed or forgotten about, and you would be getting inconsistent logging all the time with hardly any easy way to filter out such inconsistencies.

I'm afraid you would need a different way to track those hours, different from Time Tracking.

(Maybe there might be a plugin for this? Though none that I've heard of.)

I am intrigued how you're planning to use this kind of tracking, what kind of reports you want to generate and how. I don't think I've come across this concept myself before yet, but what you're describing is not what time tracking is designed for in Jira.