Claimsy

A GitHub App built with Probot that helps maintainers by automatically assigning willing contributors to issues! 🎉

How does it work?

Step 1 👨‍💻 - A willing user comments on an issue with phrases like "Please assign me" or "I'd like to work on this"

Step 2 🤖 - The bot will automatically recognize the comment and assign the commenter!

Alternatively - You can try configuring the bot to recognize @mentions in comments and assign users accordingly!

How do I get it running?

• Simply go to the app listing and click the install button
• Choose your account & repository, and install the app!
• Optionally, you can provide a .github/claimsy.yml in your repo to customize some features of the app

Customizations?

Here's a sample .github/claimsy.yml to let you know how to tell Claimsy what comments to look for -

# Commands to allow contributors to get issues assigned to themselves
selfAssignCommands:
  - I'll do it
  - May I do it

# A flag value to allow anyone to assign anyone to an issue. This is currently experimental so use it at your own risk!
allowUserAssignments: false

# Commands to allow anyone to assign issues to anyone, including themselves
assignCommands:
  - assign this to USERNAME
  - will be done by USERNAME

# Remember to put in the term USERNAME as a placeholder for the @mentions that will be made in comments

Note:

To handle a comment such as 'assign this issue to @krharsh17', make sure to include 'assign this issue to USERNAME' in your assignCommands list. The keyword USERNAME is mandatory and to be used as is for placeholder of @mentions

How to hack this?

• Clone the repo
• Make sure to have Node installed on your system
• Run the following commands in a terminal inside the cloned repo:

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run the bot
npm start

Contributing

If you have suggestions for how Claimsy could be improved, or want to report a bug, open an issue! We'd love all and any contributions.

For more, check out the Contributing Guide.

License

ISC © 2020 krharsh17 kharsh39@gmail.com