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## Choose a Ticket
-1. Review the list of [Good First Contribution](https://mattermost.atlassian.net/issues/?filter=10206) tickets listed in Jira.
+1. Review the list of [Good First Contribution](https://mattermost.atlassian.net/issues/?filter=10206) tickets listed in Jira.
+ - You are welcome to work on any ticket, even if it is assigned, so long as it is not yet marked "in progress"
+ - (optional) You can share with the community that you're working on a specific ticket so no one else inadvertently duplicates your work by sharing on the forum or in the core team Mattermost instance as described in step 3.
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2. These projects are intended to be a straight forward first pull requests from new contributors.
- If you don't find something appropriate for your interests, please see the full list of tickets [Accepting Pull Requests](https://mattermost.atlassian.net/issues/?filter=10101).
- Also, feel free to fix bugs you find, or items in GitHub issues that the core team has approved, but not yet added to Jira.