Yeah I am aware of this issue. Assigning sub issues requires GitHub triager role, which is a bit higher than the privilege that normal contributors have. Committers can do it.
We might be able to add something similar to /take and /request-review commands to make this a bit easier for you. Feel free to explore if you have bandwidth. Otherwise I can investigate this weekend. Best, Yicong Huang [email protected] On May 21, 2026 at 12:35 PM -0700, Ryan Zhang <[email protected]>, wrote: > Hi Texera team, > > For context, I am currently managing a Github issue with many sub-issues > related to my work (see here > <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fapache%2Ftexera%2Fissues%2F4301&data=05%7C02%7Cyiconghuang%40umass.edu%7Cab020220d92848171dc308deb7701dc2%7C7bd08b0b33954dc194bbd0b2e56a497f%7C0%7C0%7C639149889479748881%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C60000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=4bztHPMsGdvOXAWN7DGZOJN7DWXmGuJLqAerdqCv7h8%3D&reserved=0>). > I have found that as a Contributor, I am unable to create or edit > sub-issues, only normal issues. This causes some overhead as I need to have > a Committer create the sub-issues and give them the content I want to > write. It would be better if I can manage all of this myself. > > Is this a restriction in place by ASF or Github? An alternative idea I had > is to write the sub-issues as normal issues first, and then have a > Committer mark them as sub-issues under the parent issue. > > @Xuan Gu <[email protected]> and @Kun Woo Park <[email protected]>: Since you > are also managing similar projects, what is your experience with this? > > Thanks, > Ryan
