Auto assign PR to author

[Matt711]

Description

I think most PRs remain unassigned, so this PR auto assigns the PR to the PR author. I think this will help keep our project boards up-to-date.

Checklist

• I am familiar with the Contributing Guidelines.
• New or existing tests cover these changes.
• The documentation is up to date with these changes.

[Matt711]

I'm requesting a review because I have a couple questions.

[Matt711]

Maybe on reopen too? Anything else?

[vyasr]

Maybe edited too? If a second person starts pushing to the PR then we can make them both share ownership. The one caveat is that it might get messy with people merging upstream, but if there isn't an easy way to avoid that I think adding them is better than not. WDYT @Matt711 and @bdice?

[Matt711]

Maybe edited too? If a second person starts pushing to the PR then we can make them both share ownership.

From the documentation, edited means

The title or body of a pull request was edited, or the base branch of a pull request was changed.

whereas synchronize means

A pull request's head branch was updated. For example, the head branch was updated from the base branch or new commits were pushed to the head branch.

So we might want synchronize over edited.

The one caveat is that it might get messy with people merging upstream, but if there isn't an easy way to avoid that I think adding them is better than not.

Since the commit message is always something like Merge {latest branch} into {current branch}, we might be able to not run the job when we get this message (I'm not sure how to do this though.)

[bdice]

@vyasr You were interested in increasing automation. What do you think of this proposal?

[vyasr]

I think that this is a (small) positive change overall. I don't think it's crucial since PR ownership is something that we often handle implicitly and it's much more important for issues where it isn't always obvious who is working on it unless there is a linked PR, but I think this is lightweight enough to be worth adding. Apologies for the slow response.

[vyasr]

Maybe edited too? If a second person starts pushing to the PR then we can make them both share ownership. The one caveat is that it might get messy with people merging upstream, but if there isn't an easy way to avoid that I think adding them is better than not. WDYT @Matt711 and @bdice?