auto-assign not working for repos selected before a config was added to the repo

[colindean]

Describe the bug
A clear and concise description of what the bug is.

auto-assign is not making assignments on repositories configured in the GitHub app and with a compliant .github/auto_assign.yml present.

To Reproduce

1. Submit a PR to an affected repo
2. Observe that no reviewers or assignees are added

Expected behavior

Reviewers or assignees are added.

Screenshots

These are internal repos but I can tell you that the repo is on the list in https://github.com/organizations/<orgname>/settings/installations/324587.

Additional context

The repos that are working are the repos that had an auto-assign config in them when it was enabled. Others were enabled and then the configuration was added: those are the ones that aren't working. It would be laborious to toggle for all of the repos we've enabled so I want to do that only as a last-ditch effort.

[colindean]

…does auto-assign not do anything if a PR has reviewers/assignees when it is submitted?

[marksb]

I am also facing this issue. I gave a repo permission before having a committed config file and it does not add reviewers. In other repos where the config file was committed beforehand, I am not facing the issue.

I have since tried to uninstall and reinstall the github application and it remains an issue.

[davetcoleman]

I have found this issue also

[davetcoleman]

Any word if this could be fixed? I'd love to use this bot on our projects but I can't get it to work at all.

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[colindean]

I think this is still an issue but the resolution for the org in which I was primarily using auto-assign was to remove it and re-add it.

[marksb]

@colindean - when you said remove it, did you remove the bot from the organization or did you remove it from one specific repo?

[colindean]

I removed the bot from the org.

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This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.