Confirm backup maintainers remain assignable each week
Know whether your backup maintainers can receive urgent GitHub work before a handoff becomes time-sensitive.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Check if a user can be assigned
Verifies if a github user can be assigned to issues in a repository; assignability is confirmed by an http 204 (no content) response, resulting in an empty 'data' field in the response.
Why this helps
A backup owner may look available on paper but lack the GitHub access needed to take an issue during an urgent handoff.
- Finds handoff blockers before an incident
- Creates a lightweight continuity check
- Reduces uncertainty around backup ownership
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect GitHub and Linear to Notis once.
- 2Tell Notis which backup maintainers and repositories to check for issue assignability.
- 3Select a weekly schedule and choose a channel for run reports.
- 4Test the check with one known assignable maintainer.
Questions about this workflow
Does this assign an issue to the maintainer?
No. It only verifies whether the user can be assigned in the repository.
How does GitHub signal assignability?
GitHub confirms assignability with a successful no-content response, which Notis can summarize in the report.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Linear to GitHub. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Linear triggers
GitHub actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Accept a repository invitation
Accepts a pending repository invitation that has been issued to the authenticated user.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
List repositories starred by the authenticated user
Deprecated: lists repositories starred by the authenticated user, including star creation timestamps; use 'list repositories starred by the authenticated user' instead.
Comment Received Trigger
Triggered when a comment is received.
List stargazers
Deprecated: lists users who have starred a repository; use `list stargazers` instead.
Issue Created Trigger
Triggered when a new issue is created.
Star a repository for the authenticated user
Deprecated: stars a repository for the authenticated user; use `star a repository for the authenticated user` instead.
Issue Updated Trigger
Triggered when an issue is updated. For example labels are changed, issue status is changed, etc.
Add email for auth user
Adds one or more email addresses (which will be initially unverified) to the authenticated user's github account; use this to associate new emails, noting an email verified for another account will error, while an existing email for the current user is accepted.
Private Team Comment Created
Fires when a new comment is posted on an issue in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
Add app access restrictions
Replaces github app access restrictions for an existing protected branch; requires a json array of app slugs in the request body, where apps must be installed and have 'contents' write permissions.
Private Team Issue Created
Fires when a new issue appears in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
Add a repository collaborator
Adds a github user as a repository collaborator, or updates their permission if already a collaborator; `permission` applies to organization-owned repositories (personal ones default to 'push' and ignore this field), and an invitation may be created or permissions updated directly.
Private Team Issue Properties Updated
Fires when properties on an issue change in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
Add a repository to an app installation
Adds a repository to a github app installation, granting the app access; requires authenticated user to have admin rights for the repository and access to the installation.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Linear and GitHub, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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