6.3. Saved Replies and Assignees
Two small features do a lot of work in keeping a busy repository's communication fast and its ownership clear.
💡 First Principle: A saved reply is a reusable canned response you can insert into any issue or pull request comment — useful for the same explanation or request you find yourself typing repeatedly (like a standard "please fill out the issue template" nudge). An assignee is a person (or several) explicitly marked as responsible for an issue or pull request, distinct from a reviewer — an assignee owns getting the item resolved, while a reviewer is asked to evaluate a specific pull request's changes.
⚠️ Exam Trap: Assignee and reviewer are not the same role. An assignee is responsible for seeing an issue or PR through; a reviewer is specifically asked to evaluate a pull request's code changes and may not be the person driving the work to completion.
Reflection Question: A pull request has one assignee and two requested reviewers. If both reviewers approve, whose job is it to actually merge the change?
