hi, Yesterday I set up a bot to set issues to In Progress if they have an assignee once a pull request has been opened.
A consequence of issuing the "Start Progress" transition in JIRA is that it assigns the issue to the JIRA user, so the bot (which uses my JIRA credentials) will then immediately reassign the issue to the original assignee. I will look into setting up an "Arrow JIRA Bot" user to make it a little more clear what's going on - Wes