+1 for restoring old behavior.Why wouldn't we allow contributors to help themselves help the community?
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:13 AM, John Vines <vi...@apache.org> wrote: > Yes, restore the old behavior > > > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Sean Busbey <bus...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > We don't have a formal onboarding process for drawing in new > contributors, > > but a recent ASF Infra change impacts what I've observed historically. > > > > Here's what I've seen historically, more or less: > > > > 1) Someone expresses interest in a ticket > > > > 2) PMC/committers add them to the list of contributors in jira > > > > 3) respond to interest informing person of this change and encouraging > them > > to assign the ticket to themselves > > > > 4) work happens on ticket > > > > 5) review/commit happens eventually > > > > 6) If contributor wants, added to website > > > > 7) contributor thanked and encouraged to find more tickets to assign to > > themselves. > > > > Due to a request from Spark, the ASF Jira got changed to default to not > > allow contributors to assign tickets[1]. > > > > Before I speak for the PMC and file a follow on to change things back, I > > just wanted a gut check that we like the above as a general approach. > > > > > > [1]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7675 > > > > -- > > Sean > > >
