Thank you.  Let's try this new protocol.

Chen Li

On Mon, May 4, 2026 at 3:52 AM Yicong Huang <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Yes I think that's a commonly adopted protocol in open source. If you want
> to work on an issue, leave a comment.
>
> In addition, I've just added a new CI to make this process even easier: we
> will simply respect the "assignee" field of issues: if it is assigned,
> someone is working on it. If is unassigned, no one is working on it, please
> feel free to grab it. You don't need to @ triagers, because the bot will do
> it for you:
>
>    - To grab an issue, simply comment `*/take*`, and a bot will assign it
>    in a few seconds. comment `*/untake*` to undo it.
>    - If a PR is linked to an issue (by using closes/resolves/fixes
>    keyword in PR description), the author of the PR will also be added to the
>    assginee list.
>    - These assignments are temporary, and multiple ppl can `/take`. you
>    will all be added to assignee list. If that happens, comment in the issue
>    to coordinate.
>    - Once the linked PR is merged, the author will be credited as the
>    assignee of the issue, and replace previous temporary assignment.
>
>
> For committers/maintainers, you have the power to change the assignees
> directly on githu UI and triage things around.
>
> I attached a screenshot of /take and /untake comment examples. Note that
> you cannot put any other text behind it as it will invalid the command.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Yicong Huang
> On Sun, May 3, 2026 at 10:58 AM Chen Li <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> We encourage community members to contribute to the project.  To do so,
>> it's important for everybody to know the status of each GitHub issue.  For
>> this reason, I suggest the following protocol:
>>
>> - When a member creates an issue, there is no assignee by default.
>>
>> - If a member is interested in an issue, they can add a comment to express
>> that interest and AT one of the triagers.  I am one of them, and you can @
>> me using "chenlica".
>>
>> - After that, a triager can add this member as an assignee.
>>
>> Chen Li
>> PPMC, Apache Texera (Incubator)
>>
>>
>

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