It really depends on the situation. If you have a small team that owns their own codebase, then people will generally know what's going on. In a large codebase

It really depends on the situation. If you have a small team that owns their own codebase, then people will generally know what's going on. In a large codebase with multiple branches it's going to be messier. If everyone's sharing a bug tracker it should be easy enough to claim bugs you're working on.