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 >
