Virtual users / placeholder assignees

Hi, I’d like to ask for a feature that allows to assign to a non-existent user.

Use case

I track a process that’s on me, then I’m waiting on someone else, then back on me etc.

Or in the case of self-hosted - not all people involved need access, but that doesn’t mean all tasks must be on me.

Alternatives

  1. custom field, like described in Custom fields for tasks - #17 by xRiErOS
  2. labels
    1. workable but there’s no selection logic, so I can have any number of “Person/xxx” labels attached to a task
  3. free text in title

Other tools

the only one I know that supports this natively is OpenProject