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 >> >
