In the mean time, you don't need to wait for the task to be assigned to you to start work. If you're worried about someone else picking it up, you can drop a short comment on the JIRA saying that you're working on it.
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Konstantin Boudnik <c...@apache.org> wrote: > Someone with proper karma needs to add you to the contributor list in the > JIRA. > > Cos > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 02:19PM, Sujeet Varakhedi wrote: > > Hi, > > I am new to Spark and would like to contribute. I wanted to assign a task > > to myself but looks like I do not have permission. What is the process > if I > > want to work on a JIRA? > > > > Thanks > > Sujeet >