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Once an issue is in JIRA then any developer with the motivation can run with it.

Where new development starts

All new development, whether new features or general improvements, should be integrated into the latest revision or the trunk. Once a new feature is implemented and integrated into the trunk it can then be decided which branches the new development should be applied to. There may be rare cases where a new development only applies to a particular branch but in general all new features go to the trunk first and disseminated from there. The important thing is that all changes go into the trunk first, then get merged into the release branch as needed, so no changes ever get dropped by mistake. Changes should be kept in sync at all times where possible and this is the responsbility of the release manager. So developers can focus on improvements in the trunk and the burden of merging will be the task of the release manager. New features or improvements should never originate from a branch

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