Contributors, Please feel free to assign JIRAs to yourselves. This has not been possible in the past due to some incorrect JIRA permissions, but that is now fixed <https://issues.apache.org/jira/servicedesk/agent/INFRA/issue/INFRA-11953>. 70% of our issues were left unassigned due to this as shown below.
[image: Inline image 1] *Calling all contributors....* Hence, 70% of our JIRA tickets need owners. As you may have noticed from the "new committer" announcement yesterday, we are looking to grow our committer/PPMC ranks and will be actively watching commit numbers and promoting regularly based on commit activity. *More contributors --> more committers --> lower PR review & merge latency* Enjoy! -s
