I believe that the general consensus within the greater ASF community is that non-committing contributors can't assign issues to themselves, but still can work on their own issues (changing specific fields, including closing the issue), and that committers can. But, I must confess that I have limited experiences, so I might be mistaken.
If we want them to be able to reassign (and be able to execute other actions not associated with the role) , we should consider inviting them to be committers. In general I say: the more the better for the project and its works. Best regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 5:25 AM, Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 16/01/15 03:43, Zheng, Kai a écrit : > > Oh, I see. We need extra step to add somebody in the contributors list > so that he/she can be picked up in the possible assignee list in the JIRA. > > > > I noticed Lin Chen was able to assign issues to herself today. That > makes sense because it looks like she would continuously work on the > project (quite a few patches already). > > > > For new contributors, perhaps we would use the similar approach, say if > he/she has already come up more than 3 patches, then we could ..., make > sense? > > For JIRA contributors, we should add them to the list of contributors no > matter what. > >
