feat: /assign self-assignment for good first issue (#62)#64

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Summary

Implements the /assign self-assignment mechanism for good first issue issues, as agreed in #47.

Contributors can comment /assign on issues labeled help wanted + good first issue to self-assign, subject to a 2-issue cross-repo limit and 7-day cooldown on recently dropped issues. The bot posts a guidance comment when the good first issue label is applied, and keyword-based assignment requests on GFI issues now include /assign guidance.

All /assign Slack notifications route to #support-dev-notifications only.

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Manual testing is done in test-actions. Temporarily update reusable workflow references to point to this branch.

Key test scenarios:

Comment /assign on an unassigned help wanted + good first issue issue → bot assigns and confirms
Comment /assign when at the 2-issue limit → bot declines with assignment list and cooldown info
Add good first issue label to a help wanted issue → bot posts guidance comment
Comment "can I work on this" on a GFI issue → bot replies with /assign guidance

Risky areas:

Cross-repo limit checking via search API + timeline events (scripts/utils.js:getRecentUnassignments) — depends on GitHub search indexing latency and timeline event format
Unassignment deduplication logic (scripts/utils.js ~line 320) — ensures multiple assign/unassign cycles on the same issue count as one slot
/assign decision tree in handleAssignCommand (scripts/contributor-issue-comment.js) — many branches with specific Slack routing per path

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Built entirely by Claude Code following a detailed implementation plan (see PLAN/index.md). Each task was implemented incrementally and code was reviewed for correctness after each step. Test infrastructure was removed per reviewer feedback (no unit tests needed for this codebase).

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March 19, 2026 20:06

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rtibblesbot commented Apr 9, 2026

Rebased onto main to resolve merge conflicts (yarn.lock had a conflict on the axios entry due to a version bump on main; resolved by taking the upstream version 1.13.6). All 36 tests still pass.

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MisRob Apr 13, 2026

This PR shouldn't affect unrelated files

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rtibblesbot Apr 15, 2026

Restored - this was deleted accidentally.

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          feat: add constants and utilities for /assign self-assignment (learni…

c322ca1

…ngequality#62)

Add assignment-related constants (label, limit/cooldown values, bot
messages) with validation tests, plus deleteBotComments and
getRecentUnassignments utilities with deduplication logic. Include
shared test helpers and Jest/ESLint configuration.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>


          feat: post guidance comment on good-first-issue labeling (learningequ…

0d2508a

…ality#62)

Add script and standalone workflow that posts an informational comment
when the good-first-issue label is applied to a help-wanted issue,
guiding contributors to use /assign for self-assignment.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>


          refactor: reorganize issue workflows into event-based structure (lear…

b8b02c8

…ningequality#62)

Restructure issue workflows following the call-pull-request-target /
pull-request-target pattern. Rename call-manage-issue-header to
call-issue-label, add call-issue-open, and introduce issue-label and
issue-open dispatcher workflows that route to the correct handlers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>


          feat: handle /assign self-assignment command (learningequality#62)

804a23d

Implement /assign command allowing contributors to self-assign
good-first-issue tickets. Enforces cross-repo 2-issue limit and
7-day cooldown on recently dropped issues. Adds /assign guidance
to keyword-triggered replies on GFI issues. Routes all /assign
Slack notifications to #support-dev-notifications only.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>


          docs: document /assign behavior and decision matrix (learningequality#62

5d1e856

)

Update community-automations.md with the /assign command decision
matrix, keyword detection behavior on GFI issues, good-first-issue
guidance comment details, and cross-repo limit/cooldown rules.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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MisRob Apr 29, 2026

There is no need to test constants. The file can be removed.

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rtibblesbot Apr 29, 2026

Removed.

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               const ISSUE_LABEL_HELP_WANTED = 'help wanted';
+              const ISSUE_LABEL_GOOD_FIRST_ISSUE = 'good first issue';
+              const MAX_ASSIGNED_ISSUES = 2;
+              const COOLDOWN_DAYS = 7;

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MisRob Apr 29, 2026

Suggested change

      
            const COOLDOWN_DAYS = 7;
          
            const ASSIGN_COOLDOWN_DAYS = 7;

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rtibblesbot Apr 29, 2026

Renamed to ASSIGN_COOLDOWN_DAYS throughout.

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+              | **Other** | `help-wanted` assigned to commenter | Regular/keyword | **Yes** | No | No | - |
               | **Other** | `help-wanted` assigned to someone else | Regular | No | Yes | No | - |
               | **Other** | `help-wanted` assigned to someone else | Assignment request | No | Yes | Yes`*` | `BOT_MESSAGE_ALREADY_ASSIGNED` |
+              | Any`**` | Private | `/assign` | No | Yes | Yes | `BOT_MESSAGE_ISSUE_NOT_OPEN` |

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MisRob Apr 29, 2026

It'd be better to remove all these new 'Any' table entries and organize the new information to the original table structure - that is utilizing Core team, Close contributor, Issue creator, and Other categories, and none other. This will improve understanding the information a lot.

Furthermore let's use the following language for describing comment type

/assign command
assign keyword (links to https://github.com/learningequality/.github/blob/main/scripts/constants.js#L44)
regular

Finally, let's not use shortcuts, such as GFI - it's not immediately clear to what it refers to.

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rtibblesbot Apr 29, 2026

Restructured: removed Any** rows, integrated /assign command rows under Close contributor/Issue creator/Other contributor types, updated comment type terminology (regular/assign keyword//assign command), and replaced GFI with good first issue throughout.

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rtibblesbot Apr 29, 2026

Two items missed in the previous pass: split the combined 'Close contributor, Issue creator, Other' rows into separate rows per contributor type (18 rows total — 6 per category), and linked 'assign keyword' to constants.js#L44 throughout the table.

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          refactor: address reviewer feedback on constants and docs (learningeq…

c5278c5

…uality#62)

- Remove constants.test.js (constants don't need testing)
- Rename COOLDOWN_DAYS to ASSIGN_COOLDOWN_DAYS for clarity
- Restructure community-automations.md table: remove Any** rows,
  integrate /assign command rows under specific contributor types,
  use regular/assign keyword//assign command terminology, spell out
  good first issue instead of GFI abbreviation

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>


          docs: split /assign rows by contributor type and link assign keyword (l…

27fd8b6

…earningequality#62)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>


          fix: wrap long getRecentUnassignments call to stay under max-len (lea…

cf5391e

…rningequality#62)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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MisRob commented Apr 29, 2026

@rtibblesbot we decided not to implement tests for affected GitHub workflows. So all test files, including test setup and changes to package.json and yarn.lock can be removed.

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rtibblesbot commented Apr 29, 2026

Done. Removed all test files (contributor-issue-comment.test.js, good-first-issue-comment.test.js, utils.test.js, test-helpers.js), removed jest from package.json, and updated yarn.lock.

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MisRob Apr 29, 2026

There should be no updates to yarn.lock in this PR. Let's revert completely

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rtibblesbot Apr 29, 2026

Reverted. yarn.lock now matches main exactly.

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                   es6: true,
                   browser: true,
                   node: true,
+                  jest: true,

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MisRob Apr 29, 2026

Can be removed

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rtibblesbot Apr 29, 2026

Removed.


          chore: remove test infrastructure (learningequality#62)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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