Slack: Subscribe to only new issues, not issues being closed.

[joemellin]

We are using the slack channel as a way to monitor the Open GitHub issues on our public repos.

So for every new issue, we @message a support person on the team and have them own the issue.

Right now we are also getting close notifications as well, which clutter the channel.

[stale[bot]]

Is this still relevant? If so, just comment with any updates and we'll leave it open. Otherwise, if there is no further activity, it will be closed.

[joemellin]

It is still needed.

[Hesesses]

Same here, we would only like to see new issues, not issues being closed

[foot]

We would also love this feature!

https://github.com/integrations/slack/issues/519 suggests a similar feature for PRs + a syntax.

Mirroring that here, could this work?

• issues:all - Opened and closed issues
• issues:new - Opened issues
• issues:closed - Closed issues
• issues - same as issues:all, default (keeping current behaviour).

This follows the only currently existing "filter-like" syntax of commits/ commits:all.

If someone were to implement this in a PR would this syntax be acceptable?

[mseliassen]

suggest adding
issues:assigned
to allow subscription to only those issues assigned to me (and not receive notification when I close an issue)

[compwron]

This would be great to have!

[EspenBrun]

This would be great!

[donalirl]

Would also appreciate this feature a lot!

[thibaultchazal]

And would appreciate a way to remove issues notifications like
issues:none