GitHub Issues subissues automatically inherit parent project assignments unexpectedly

6/10 Medium

When a subissue is created and added to the main ticket, it automatically inherits all parent project assignments by default. This breaks QA workflows where subissues shouldn't be included in the QA project until QA review, but Slack alerts are still triggered for the unwanted assignments.

GitHub IssuesGitHub Projects
Category
dx
Workaround
partial
Freshness
persistent
Scope
single_lib
Upstream
open
Recurring
Yes
Buyer Type
team
Maintainer
active

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Query: “What are the most common pain points with GitHub for developers in 2025?”4/5/2026

We're concerned about it as we've setup an integration of QA project with our slack channel specifically for QA related alerts. So whenever a new sub-issue is added with main ticket, an alert is sent by default because the by default selected projects are both i.e. main project and QA project.

Created: 4/5/2026Updated: 4/5/2026