+1 I think it makes sense to leave the unassigned by default, having it assigned to default component owner makes it appear that they have signed up to work on it, which is misleading.
I took at quick look at jira admin features to look at changing it a few days back, but couldn't spot the right place to make the change. On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 6:07 AM, Lars Francke <lars.fran...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > currently there's a different policy for Default Assignee for lots of > subcomponents. Some are set to "Component Lead" which almost never is > correct imho. > > Unless there are strong objections I'll change this to "Unassigned" for all > components. > > Cheers, > Lars > > PS: I'm still looking for voters for my bylaws change in the user@ mailing > list :)
