Assigning issues to users

A repository can have more than one collaborator. A collaborator is a person who has push access to the repository and, in our case, can also edit and close issues.

User assignment works well in repositories with large traffic where a team is involved and is responsible for bug fixes, enhancements, and so on.

There are two ways to assign an issue to someone. First, as you have seen in the previous images, there is an Assignee section inside each issue, as shown in the following screenshot:

At this particular stage, there is only one collaborator—me—so only my name appears in the list. Okay, we learned how to assign an issue to a collaborator from inside the issue, but what happens if you have dozens of issues that you want to assign to someone? Assigning each of them one by one is a bit tedious and time consuming. You'll be happy to know that you can mass-assign issues to a person.

For this purpose, let's create two more issues. Head over to the Issues page, select the boxes of the issues that you want to assign, and select an assignee, as shown in the following screenshot:

After selecting the assignee, the issues will immediately get updated with the new information. You can see that the avatar of the assignee appears on each issue that is assigned to them: