The take action in github is well intentioned, but may be causing more harm than good. Often users comment "take" but progress immediately stalls, and new contributors can be discouraged from pursuing issues that are already assigned to users.
As an alternative, we can document better expectations for "soft reserving" an issue, much like sci-kit learn has done in https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/pull/31568
Comment From: jbrockmendel
+1
Comment From: WillAyd
Forgot to mention but credit to @mroeschke for the idea - it wasn't mine :-)
Comment From: Aniketsy
+1, I agree. Also, maybe only members should be able to assign someone to avoid confusion.
Comment From: KevsterAmp
+1, a problem that I found was users were able to "take" but arent able to "unassign" themselves in an issue