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How do I assign a GitHub issue to more than one person?
I have work in project with my colleagues using GitHub repository. If I create an issue I can assign it to one user, but sometimes I need to assign it to multiple people.
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Assignees can be added and removed on the web UI by clicking on the assignees dropdown in the sidebar and adding multiple users.
On GitHub.com, navigate to the main page of the repository. Under your repository name, click Issues or Pull requests. Select the checkbox next to the items you want to assign to someone.
You can also assign an issue to yourself. Simply click on “Assign to me”. Then, you can add a comment and mention the user that has been assigned the issue. Type the @ (at) key and search for their name in the list or start typing their name and click on it when it appears.
According to official github documentation, Assignee is a person who is working on specific issues and pull requests. It is sometimes confused as a reviewer. It is actually meant to be used with issues rather than pull request so that when we receive a issue we can assign someone to fix it.
You could assign the issue to one of them and @-mention the GitHub usernames of the others, which will subscribe them to updates for that issue. If you have groups of people who will often be assigned together, you could also create teams within an organization to mention them all at once.
UPDATE: GitHub just shipped multiple assignees, so, now you can!
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Here is the info on Multiple assignees on Issues and Pull requests
I couldn't find any update on the topic, but it seems that Github changed the assignees' policy and now in the public projects you can assign up to 10 people:
But on the private projects you are limited back to a single person:
So basically, you need to do the already mentioned approach (with @ in the issue text)
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