Multiple assignees on Issues and Pull requests

Surprised to see so much negative feedback. I agree that clear responsibility is important, and that adding multiple assignees when those people share similar responsibilities could lead to the bystander effect.

I'm really excited about this feature. I feel like "If only GitHub Issues allowed multiple assignees" comes up in conversations with colleagues at least a couple times a month.

For context, the design (and development) team I work with uses GitHub Issues religiously. Right now all issues that need design work are explicitly assigned to a designer, and we use a label based workflow combined with Codetree to help organize weekly sprints. Having multiple assignees will allow us to explicitly assign a product manager to each of these issues w/o having to take it out of each designer's sprint, which will help make sure all design tasks receive feedback and move forward in a timely manner.

The best way to make sure something never gets done is to share ownership of it.

Wasn't expecting such a negative reaction to this. For Issues, the feature isn't particularly useful to me, but for Pull Requests, it's a great way of declaring who needs to sign off for the PR to be merged. When big features come into PR, people where I work were reluctant to use the 'Assignee' feature at all because it implied that the PR was already 'taken' for code review. Now, a front end engineer can assign themselves to do the FE review and a back end engineer can assign themselves to do the BE review, and the reviewers can be directly seen from the PR list. Nice.

Does anyone know if it's possible to disable this? For teams like mine, where we want to have only one owner for each issue, it's meant many more clicks to perform a reassignment operation.

There are many improvements needed on Issues; this one is certainly not the first that comes to mind.

Great! Now it would be cool if I could save a group so I could in one click assign my pr's to my team instead of having to individually add each member each time

Assigning pull requests to multiple people is fantastic: sometimes you're modifying a library and want the owner of that library to review your code, but you're simultaneously modifying the clients of that library and want their owners to review the change as well.

Assigning issues to multiple owners is a recipe for complete and utter inaction from all parties involved.

This is bad practice for getting things done.

I'm glad this feature is in, but it's only useful for my PRs.

For example, there was a recent PR where the owner was modeling the UI for a feature with stubbed calls, while I was setting up the backend.

Once my work was done, he wrapped up the rest, and I was no longer needed.

We used notifications to informally say "you're still needed for this!" vs it being part of my daily hit list.