[ARROW-11852] [Documentation] Update CONTRIBUTING to explain Contributor role

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0
• Component/s: Documentation
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/27699
• Assignee: Diana Clarke
• Reporter: Andy Grove
• Created: 03/Mar/21 14:11
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:22
• Resolved: 06/Mar/21 21:28

Description

In CONTRIBUTING.md [1] we should explain that new users need to ask someone to assign them the "Contributing" role so that they can self-assign issues in JIRA. It would also be useful to add notes for commuters on how to assign this role to people.

 [1]https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #9648