Sankalp had a thread about this last month. He was going to look into our options.
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 6:45 PM, Jason Brown <jasedbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > Currently, when a new contributor wants to have a ticket assigned to > themselves, they cannot due to JIRA permissions. The contributor (or > someone on behalf of the contributor) usually needs to contact the > dev-channel and ask for the magical permissions to be granted, and there's > only a handful of folks who can grant that. > > Is anyone aware of why this restriction is in place, or feel strongly it > should exist? I'd like to change the JIRA defaults and let anyone assign > themselves to a ticket (see > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-11950 for an example of > another > Apache project that has done this already). > > Thoughts? > > If no strong objections I'll set up a PMC vote within a day or two. > > Thanks, > > -Jason > -- Jonathan Ellis co-founder, http://www.datastax.com @spyced
