[GitHub] [beam] damccorm commented on a diff in pull request #21719: Add ability to self-assign issues for non-committers

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damccorm commented on code in PR #21719:
URL: https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/21719#discussion_r892706148


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website/www/site/content/en/contribute/get-started-contributing.md:
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@@ -109,7 +109,10 @@ Questions can be asked on the [#beam channel of the ASF Slack](https://beam.apac
 1. Find or create an issue in the [Beam repo](https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/new/choose).
    Tracking your work in an issue will avoid duplicated or conflicting work, and provide
    a place for notes. Later, your pull request will be linked to the issue as well.
-2. Comment on the issue saying that you would like to work on it.
+2. Comment ".take-issue" on the issue. This will cause the issue to be assigned to you.
+   When you've completed the issue, you can close it by commenting ".close-issue".
+   If you are a committer and would like to assign an issue to a non-committer, they must comment
+   on the issue first; please tag the user asking them to do so or to comment ".take-issue".

Review Comment:
   That's a good point - that's a limitation as currently implemented.
   
   I added #21755 to address that limitation, it will ignore comments like `.take-issue`



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