| 17 Jul 2025 |
 msgilligan | * I will try to take a look at it in a few weeks September (or so), if nobody else has. | 18:42:59 |
| msgilligan | I'm not sure what assigning yourself on Issue on GitHub means to the Nixpkgs community, but I've started using it to mean "I am interested in contributing to this when I can". Will that confuse or upset anyone? | 18:44:42 |
 Infinidoge 🏳️⚧️ | I've always seen it as "$X is working on this", with varying definitions of 'working on' | 18:45:23 |
| msgilligan | Does "thinking about it" count? 🤣 | 18:46:06 |
 emily | I don't think it gets used that much honestly | 18:47:47 |
| emily | so you can probably assign whatever semantics you want | 18:47:52 |
| emily | but I would say that it will make someone else less likely to pick it up, because "someone else is already on it" | 18:48:03 |
| emily | so if you'd rather invite someone else to take it up and don't plan to get to it any time soon, then maybe skip the assignment | 18:48:15 |
| msgilligan | I don't want to discourage anyone! Good point. | 18:50:16 |
| msgilligan | I wish there was a way to mark an issue as "I'd like to help". i.e. one step beyond giving it a 👍 | 18:51:27 |
| emily | you can just comment :) | 18:52:09 |
| msgilligan | I do that. But it would be nice to be able to find all the issues I'm interested in helping on with a search on GitHub. | 18:53:44 |
