> Ultimately as Charles mentioned, it's not super clear how a newcomer can gain access to these permissions.
In my experience, the committer who is helping a contributor to land their first PR will take care of this Jira bookkeeping behind the scenes. A better UX for everyone would be if the ASF automation that we use to approve a request for a new Jira account on a project would also let us specify automattic Jira role assignment. If you felt like contributing to ASF Infra, this is likely a PR they'd support. On Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 3:03 PM Catherine Turner via dev < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, thanks for your responses and thanks Nick for adding me to that > contributor role! > > For context, I previously discussed Jira permissions with my colleague and > saw that he was a part of both the "hbase" and "committers" groups on Jira > and was able to manage assignments whereas I was not. I'm familiar with the > term committer but figured that there may not be a one to one mapping of > Jira roles to Github identities and had no visibility into what other > groups/roles may exist. Ultimately as Charles mentioned, it's not super > clear how a newcomer can gain access to these permissions. I did originally > follow the ASF self-serve portal to create my Jira account before sending > my first email and was thus able to create a ticket but couldn't manage its > assignment after that; I wonder whether the self-serve route could be > improved to automatically mark new Jira users as contributors for the > projects they have selected. > > Regardless, I'm excited to start contributing and collaborating with you > all! > > Thanks again, > Catherine > > > On Jun 12, 2026, at 6:01 AM, Nick Dimiduk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Catherine, > > > > The term "committer" is somewhat special in the Apache context. It means, > > someone who has been recognized by the PMC for their contributions to the > > project and its community and has been granted permissions that include > > write access to our git repos along with other privileges within the > > foundation. You can read more about the path to becoming a committer on > > this page [0]. > > > > However, I see that your Jira user account does not have the > "contributor" > > role within the HBase project. I have made that adjustment and so you > > should now be able to self-assign Jira issues. > > > > Do let us know if you encounter further roadblocks as you onboard. > > > > Thanks, > > Nick > > > > [0]: https://community.apache.org/contributors/ > > > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 9:37 PM Catherine Turner via dev < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi! I'm hoping to be added to the committers and hbase groups on the > HBase > >> JIRA. I just wrote up an issue ( > >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/HBASE/issues/HBASE-30218) and > >> want to assign myself. > >> > >> My username on Jira is cturner. > >> > >> Let me know if you have any questions, thank you! > >
