Based on Jason's the INFRA jira ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-11950 ) , it looks like we can remove the blocker if desired - does anyone have any argument for keeping it? Or should we just jump to a vote?
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
