we can add the jira-users group to the contributor role, but as Josh
mentioned there's been a recurring spam attack on ASF JIRA and if our
tracker becomes subject to it either us or ASF Infra will need to
remove it.

a summary of the last major attack IIRC:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/2016/04/28/JIRA+Spam

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 10:28 PM, Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Maybe"
>
> JIRA permissions schemes at the ASF continue to confound me. They're pretty
> much controlled by INFRA, AFAIK, and due to a recent raise in spam, they're
> also pretty locked down. (we might be past that now?) Maybe Sean/Taylor know
> better what's actually available -- I've just always added people as
> necessary.
>
> Anyways, the way to work around it short-term is to go to the Roles[1] page,
> and then add the username to the "Contributors" list. Then, make sure you
> reload the JIRA issue, and you should be able to assign it to that user (and
> they can also self-assign/transition-state in the future). I've gone ahead
> and done this for GOSSIP-4.
>
> [1]
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/plugins/servlet/project-config/GOSSIP/roles
>
>
> Edward Capriolo wrote:
>>
>> For https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GOSSIP-4 I am unable to assign
>> jaideepdhok to this issue. Can we setup so any jira user can assign
>> themselves?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Edward
>>
>

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