I had modified the jira setting a while back to allow any jira users to add assign bugs to themselves. So having a jira account should be sufficient to assign bugs to yourself. However, recently INFRA had to put jira in lockdown mode due to spam, and when it goes in that mode mode, only people in the contributor category can perform most actions. TLDR - being in jira contributor list (which is what Alan would have added you to), is useful in certain cases, but not necessary for most part.
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Vihang Karajgaonkar <vih...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Thanks Alan. > > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Alan Gates <alanfga...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> You’ve been added, so you should now be able to assign JIRAs to yourself. >> >> Alan. >> >> > On May 18, 2016, at 13:38, Vihang Karajgaonkar <vih...@cloudera.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > Thanks Alan! My JIRA id is vihangk1 >> > >> > -Vihang >> > >> >> On May 18, 2016, at 1:09 PM, Alan Gates <alanfga...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Nope, you’re good. You can ignore the stuff about review board as we >> generally only use that now for large and complex patches. If you have a >> JIRA in mind you’d like to work on that no one else has you can assign it >> to yourself* and get started. If someone else is working on it you should >> coordinate via comments on that JIRA to see if there’s a way you can help. >> >> >> >> Welcome to the team. >> >> >> >> Alan. >> >> >> >> *You probably can’t assign JIRAs to yourself yet, but if you reply to >> this email with your JIRA id I’ll make it so you can. >> >> >> >> Alan. >> >> >> >>> On May 18, 2016, at 11:42, Vihang Karajgaonkar <vih...@cloudera.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Hello Everyone, >> >>> >> >>> I would like to start working on issues reported on Hive in JIRA. I >> followed the steps mentioned in >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/HowToContribute#HowToContribute-BecomingaContributor >> < >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/HowToContribute#HowToContribute-BecomingaContributor>. >> Is there anything else that I need to do to get added as a contributor? >> >>> >> >>> Thanks, >> >>> Vihang >> >> >> > >> >>
