Contributors have the "Assignable" permission, but are lacking "Assign User" which despite the text description means that they cannot assign a ticket to themselves. Basically Contributors cannot assign anything to anyone.
Ideally, we want to add "Assign User" to Contributors rather than keep adding everyone who comes along to the Committers group. The Apache Geode PMC and admins do not have the necessary permissions to edit the Roles. We can only add, assign and remove Users. If we want to edit Contributors to add "Assign User" we'll need to have one of us contact ASF Infra to request this change to our Project in Jira. Otherwise we have to assign all newcomers to the Committers group instead of Contributors. Note: I haven't changed any Users or Roles in Jira (I just have time to quickly post this message right now). -Kirk
