[DISCUSS] Don't assign tickets to other people.

[Marko Rodriguez <ok...@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I notice that lots of people (committers and general users) like to assign people their submitted tickets. For instance, they find a bug in Traversal and then are like "Marko."  I think that if you submit a ticket and you will take ownership of it, then assign it to yourself and do the work. Else, keep it Unassigned and when developers peruse the the list they can go "I can knock this out" and will assign it to themselves. I think it should be up to people to decide what they want to work on, not the submitter to decide who will do the work.

Thoughts?,
Marko.

http://markorodriguez.com

Re: [DISCUSS] Don't assign tickets to other people.

[Stephen Mallette <sp...@gmail.com>]

I've removed the "default assignments" settings in jira. Expect a mass of
email as folks start to "unassign" tickets. :)

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Stephen Mallette <sp...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> There are "default" assignments in JIRA.  When we first got setup with
> JIRA I think they were all setup to auto-assign to me.  I later set it up
> to auto-assign "process" ones to you....something like that.  I'm ok with
> turning that "feature" off all together.  As it stands right now, I think
> they only auto-assign to me and you depending on the areas of the code base
> we tinker on the most.  so it just affects the two of us.  our workflow
> really doesn't require assigning tickets that aren't being worked on, so
> that's another reason we might just drop it.
>
> Assuming there are no objections here in the next 72 hours (Saturday,
> November 21, 2015 at 10:30AM EST) i'll assume lazy consensus and drop the
> auto-assignment.
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Marko Rodriguez <ok...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I notice that lots of people (committers and general users) like to
>> assign people their submitted tickets. For instance, they find a bug in
>> Traversal and then are like "Marko."  I think that if you submit a ticket
>> and you will take ownership of it, then assign it to yourself and do the
>> work. Else, keep it Unassigned and when developers peruse the the list they
>> can go "I can knock this out" and will assign it to themselves. I think it
>> should be up to people to decide what they want to work on, not the
>> submitter to decide who will do the work.
>>
>> Thoughts?,
>> Marko.
>>
>> http://markorodriguez.com
>>
>>
>

Re: [DISCUSS] Don't assign tickets to other people.

[Stephen Mallette <sp...@gmail.com>]

There are "default" assignments in JIRA.  When we first got setup with JIRA
I think they were all setup to auto-assign to me.  I later set it up to
auto-assign "process" ones to you....something like that.  I'm ok with
turning that "feature" off all together.  As it stands right now, I think
they only auto-assign to me and you depending on the areas of the code base
we tinker on the most.  so it just affects the two of us.  our workflow
really doesn't require assigning tickets that aren't being worked on, so
that's another reason we might just drop it.

Assuming there are no objections here in the next 72 hours (Saturday,
November 21, 2015 at 10:30AM EST) i'll assume lazy consensus and drop the
auto-assignment.

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Marko Rodriguez <ok...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I notice that lots of people (committers and general users) like to assign
> people their submitted tickets. For instance, they find a bug in Traversal
> and then are like "Marko."  I think that if you submit a ticket and you
> will take ownership of it, then assign it to yourself and do the work.
> Else, keep it Unassigned and when developers peruse the the list they can
> go "I can knock this out" and will assign it to themselves. I think it
> should be up to people to decide what they want to work on, not the
> submitter to decide who will do the work.
>
> Thoughts?,
> Marko.
>
> http://markorodriguez.com
>
>