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Adding assignees

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Adding assignees

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- [Instructor] Understanding and tracking the responsibility within a team can become increasingly difficult as an objective grows in scope. You might be able to recall a time where you were mentioned in a comment or direct message about the status of a duty whose existence you weren't even aware of. Luckily, GitHub Issues contains the feature of being able to assign team members to specific issues to clarify who's responsible for a certain duty for moments like those. In a repository's landing page under the Issues tab, navigate to the issue that we want to assign a team member to. Once we've opened our desired issue, we can see that on the left hand side of the page we have an assignees option. If no one has been assigned to the issue, we can easily click on the assign yourself button to assign it to yourself. For now, we will select another team member to be the assignee by clicking on the gear icon and typing in their…

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