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Discussion (and potential setup) of ability to self-assign issues #429

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With the activist community growing and hacktoberfest in full-swing, I've been wondering about the ability for folks to potentially self-assign themselves to unassigned issues. Some reasons for this are:

  • to free @andrewtavis from having to diligently moderate issues
  • to give contributors a hopefully smoother/enjoyable contributing experience
  • to give other contributors better up-to-date visibility on which issues are still up-for-grabs

Not sure if this is deemed a beneficial automation - so open to discussion 😄💬 One idea, though, could be simply for a quick GitHub Action to listen for GitHub events of type issue_comment and trigger after a comment containing something like /assign me or /assign @wkyoshida (something similar to what is discussed here). Then, the Action could assign the user to the issue.

Other thoughts - we could make it so:

  • this only works for still unassigned issues
  • only one user per issue is assigned this way. Other users can still get assigned to the issue through the regular manual flow (this is important, for instance, during discussion issues where multiple people are involved as in activist backend planning #174)

Let me know 🤷

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