projects: Add issue assignment of developers

Author: fneu

_projects/assign_issues.md

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+---
+collaborating_projects:
+  - coala
+  - GitMate
+desc: "Make sure that developers get notified about new issues that need their input: Use the tags of the new issue to find developers that have previously solved similar Issues."
+difficulty: high
+initiatives:
+  - Research
+issues: []
+markdown: assign_issues.md
+mentors:
+  - fneu
+  - sils
+name: "Tag-based Assignment of Developers to Issues"
+requirements:
+  - "At least one patch to coala or GitMate should be accepted and merged."
+  - "Familiarity with [IGitt](https://gitlab.com/gitmate/IGitt) is advised."
+tags:
+  - Workflow
+  - GitHub
+---
+
+Issues are the primary way to organize developer tasks for projects on GitHub including coala.
+The progress of these projects oftentimes relies on the right developers being notified of
+new issues that fall into their territory of expertise.
+With the project growing, the number of incoming issues increases. Not all developers can continuously
+scan all incoming issues. It is therefore likely that developers miss issues that they could have
+great influence on with little investment.
+
+The goal of this project is to analyse incoming issues and evaluate the issue title, text, and tags to
+determine the developer(s) most likely to be familiar with the task or problem at hand.
+
+The scope of this project is aimed at a scientific research thesis. Therefore we would like to see a
+clearly determined and structured approach as to how the appropriate developers will be selected.
+Most appropriate would be a literature-backed approach that is implemented and verified throughout the
+execution of this project.
+
+#### Milestones
+
+##### PROPOSAL
+
+* A credible strategy for selecting developers is proposed
+
+##### EVALUATION
+
+* The data of previous developer activity has been collected and processed
+* A toolchain is in place to automatically collect and evaluate incoming issues
+* The proposed developer selection algorithm has been implemented
+* The developer selection done by the algorithm has been verified or refuted