Automatic Unassignment of Inactive Help Wanted Issue Assignees

[kartikangiras]

Problem

Many contributors struggle with the current workflow:

• help wanted issues are quickly claimed/assigned
• Assignees may claim an issue but not start work immediately
• Maintainers require issues to be assigned to review a PR
• Result: Issues remain blocked and unavailable to other contributors for weeks or months

Expected Behavior

• Assignee must open a PR (even draft) within 7 days of being assigned
• PR must link to the issue (e.g., Fixes #123) to prevent unassignment
• Assignees with active PRs are never unassigned
• Workflow runs every Monday at 09:00 UTC

[gemini-cli]

👋 @kartikangiras, thanks for your interest in this issue! We're reserving self-assignment for issues that have been marked with the help wanted label. Feel free to check out our list of issues that need attention.

[kartikangiras]

@scidomino PTAL at this proposal as it is much needed in the community.

@kartikangiras Bro same issue the 7 PR LIMIT SHOUDL BE REMOVED TOO CAN YOU ADD THAT IN PR TOO?

#20996
SEE THIS ISSUE

[scidomino]

Let's make it so that you have to open a PR within 7 days or get unassigned.

Make sure this only applies to external contributors (not maintainers or collaboraters)

[lucumango]

/assign

[gemini-cli]

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[scidomino]

@lucumango I look forward to seeing your PR soon.

[kartikangiras]

@scidomino I already have a PR for this. you can take a look #21003