Support filtering github issues that don't have an assignee but have a special label

[jdm]

Since github restricts who can be assigned to an issue by default, many projects use a special label to indicate that the issue is effectively assigned. For Servo, this label is C-assigned. It would be good if there were some way to add that to the project YAML so the frontend could filter by assigned/unassigned correctly.

[helfi92]

That's a great idea. One way would be to treat "assigned" as a special label and use it to correctly display which issues are actually unassigned. For example,

repositories: 
- servo/servo: ['E-easy', 'assigned']

would mark issues as assigned if they have the "assigned" label. Thoughts?

[jdm]

It would be unfortunate to rename the attribute in Servo's case since it would require updating several other tools that rely on the name, but I suppose it would be better than nothing. My preference would be support customizing the name per repository or project if possible.

[helfi92]

Sure thing. It would add a bit of complexity to the yaml file but I guess that's okay. For the repositories property in the project configuration file we could probably do:

repositories:
  servo/servo:
    assigned: C-assigned
    labels: E-easy

[helfi92]

/cc @fiennyangeln In case you had thoughts about this.

[Bahati308]

@jdm I am an outreachy applicant. i request to work o this

[jdm]

I'm not involved in this anymore. You will need to contact the active developers.

[lotas]

Hi @Bahati308 Thanks for your interest in this issue. Unfortunately this issue isn't covered by the Outreachy program, but you are welcome to contribute to it, if you would like to

[Bahati308]

thanks a lot Yarik,

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