As a DDF developer, I would like to be able to assign myself to an issue when I begin work on it

[coyotesqrl]

Description

Currently, there is no way for a contributor to indicate they are working on an issue short of leaving a comment on the issue and hoping a committer notices it and adds them as an Assignee. Ideally, a contributor would be able to self-assign when they decide to pick up an issue.

Expected behavior:

When a contributor (who is not a committer) wants to start work on an issue, they have some mechanism by which they can self-assign to the issue so that they do something and they end up assigned to the issue.

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Additional Information

[vinamartin]

❓ I'm wondering if we can write a bot for this, where if a contributor writes a certain phrase, "I will be working this issue" or whatever the bot can assign it for them.

[coyotesqrl]

I was thinking something like that as well. Maybe a basic phrase starting with
Starting work on... could be the trigger to add the contributor as an assignee.

[Kjames5269]

I think it could be simpler like the build now command we use for PR's, something like assign me if we're using an issue comment as the input.

Additionally maybe we could have something in the template to auto assign yourself. I'm not sure how that would look but it might be nice if it's not too difficult

[rzwiefel]

Ya I agree with @Kjames5269 , I'd prefer to go with something simpler (like a single word). I was also thinking of using a simple syntax like assign:me. Then the other side of that might be unassign:me

[rzwiefel]

It gives us a lot more future options for bot commands sticking with something slightly more structured instead of splitting on whitespace or using phrases

[coyotesqrl]

This is good. Even simpler = even better.

[vinamartin]

Did someone want to work on this? I was going to take a crack at it if no one else wanted to try.

[rzwiefel]

Definitely go for it @vinamartin. I'd of course love to do it as well but don't have an overabundance of free time. Keep us updated so we can follow along 😄

brings us to the next thing... should we create a codice/bots repo for things like this?

[coyotesqrl]

I think a bots repo is an excellent idea.

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