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Opening a PR, removing 'in-progress' label: Remove self-assignment from issue too?

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Domain
documentation

Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is mentioned; start by reviewing the project's documented contribution and issue-assignment workflow. Done means deciding and recording whether a contributor should be removed from the issue's assignees when opening a pull request.

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Description

help wanted question

When we work on an issue, the first thing we do (upon getting the green light to actually work on the issue), is a) assigning oneself to the task/issue and b) sticking the 'in-progress' label on.

When we are done working on the issue, and have made a PR, we assign the PR to another person to review, and we also remove the 'in-progress' label from the issue, but do we also remove ourselves from 'Assignees'?

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Getting set up

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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