Yeah I agree, no reason to feel bad at all. There are more opportunities to
make improvements than we have contributors so it doesn't really matter if
you assign something for a bit then unassign it. I've certainly sat on
plenty of issues for a while that I sincerely intended to work on but never
did.

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Jim Apple <[email protected]> wrote:

> The Apache JIRA install does not allow tickets to be assigned to just
> anyone. Instead, they need to be a "Contributor", which is just a JIRA
> role that each project can assign to whomever they like.
>
> I asked INFRA about opening it up more and they declined.
>
> To add a person to the "Contributor" role:
>
> 1. Go to https://issues.apache.org/jira/plugins/servlet/project-
> config/IMPALA/roles
>
> 2. Click on the tiny pencil in the upper right-hand corner of the
> "Contributors" box. A text box will appear to the right of the
> contributor box.
>
> 3. Type the name of the person in that box to attempt to find their
> Apache JIRA username.
>
> 4. Once you have it, press "Update"
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 8:12 AM, Tim Armstrong <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi Xinran,
> >   That looks like a good JIRA to start with. I wasn't able to figure out
> > your Apache JIRA username but please feel free to assign it to yourself
> (or
> > let us know if you need permissions to do so)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Tim
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 4:30 PM, kenneth mcfarland <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Please check out issue #5392 I feel utterly terrible but I hope another
> >> fellow will use it to show love for this awesome project.
> >>
> >> On Jan 2, 2018 1:23 PM, "Xinran Yu Tinney" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi,
> >> >    I was wondering if I could start contributing by solving this Jira
> >> > ticket: IMPALA-5314 <https://issues.apache.org/
> jira/browse/IMPALA-5314>?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks!
> >> >
> >> > 2017-12-29 15:38 GMT-06:00 Xinran Yu Tinney <[email protected]>:
> >> >
> >> > > Hi, Impala mailing list,
> >> > >    I would like to start contributing on impala project and would
> like
> >> to
> >> > > join the mailing list. Thanks!
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > Xinran Tinney
> >> > >
> >> > > Software Engineer
> >> > > Cloudera
> >> > >
> >> >
> >>
>

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