Enhancement: Enhance auto issue comment workflow to skip maintainers

[rohan-pandeyy]

Description

Currently, the .github/workflows/auto-issue-comment.yml workflow automatically posts a comment under every newly opened issue.

The comment is:

👋 Thanks for opening this issue! The maintainers will review it shortly. Till then, do not open any PR. This is a strict rule we like to follow around here :)

While this works well for issues opened by new contributors, it creates unnecessary confusion when the issue itself is opened by a maintainer, organization member, or repository collaborator.

In such cases:

• the issue is already reviewed/validated internally,
• the automated comment becomes redundant,
• contributors may incorrectly assume the issue is still awaiting maintainer review.

At the moment, maintainers manually delete this comment whenever it appears on internally created issues.

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Expected Behavior

The workflow should:

• Post the automated comment only for external contributors.
• Skip the comment if the issue author is:
  • OWNER
  • MEMBER
  • COLLABORATOR

This can be achieved using GitHub's author_association field available in the issue event payload.

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Possible Implementation

The workflow can check:

github.event.issue.author_association

[github-actions]

👋 Thanks for opening this issue! The maintainers will review it shortly. Till then, do not open any PR. This is a strict rule we like to follow around here :)

[rohan-pandeyy]

Not deleting the github-actions' comment for reference.

[Hemil36]

Hi @rohan-pandeyy, I’d like to work on this enhancement.

The change seems straightforward using github.event.issue.author_association to skip comments for OWNER, MEMBER, and COLLABORATOR.

Could you please assign this issue to me?

[rohan-pandeyy]

@Hemil36 please go ahead😄