I reorged labels on Cabal's GitHub

Tue Jul 12 19:45:05 UTC 2016

> On 12 Jul 2016, at 18:42, Edward Z. Yang <ezyang at mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> Excerpts from Oleg Grenrus's message of 2016-07-12 04:03:43 -0700:
>> Looks good indeed!
>> 
>> I have few questions:
>> - what is purpose of `paging:*` labels, to help people see issues they are interested in? How it’s different from assignees (which can be multiple)?
> 
> Beyond what Mikhail stated:
> 
>    - Multiple people can be paged, only one assigned
Yes you can. https://github.com/blog/2178-multiple-assignees-on-issues-and-pull-requests <https://github.com/blog/2178-multiple-assignees-on-issues-and-pull-requests>

>    - I can put more metadata in the tag name than assignable
>      (to help people decide who to page)
Ah, page as in ping. That meaning I always find weird (and don’t remember).

> summon (someone) over a public address system, so as to pass on a message

IMHO multiple assignment would work better as it actually sends notification (if one choose to receive such).

Yet, you’re right, deciding whom to page/assign is often non-obvious. Not sure if few-word description if any helpful. (e.g. whom to contact on hackage-security problems, I’m actually unsure whether it’s edsko or dcoutts, or on something else...).

> 
> But it's an experiment. If it's not useful we can delete the tags.
> 
>> - why “bug” has “ezyang planning to delete this tag”. I’d prefer to have “type: bug” and other “type:*” labels as:  “type: discuss”, “type: enhancement”, “type: question”, and maybe more as e.g. stack has https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/labels <https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/labels>
> 
> OK, the tag served it's purpose! I planned to delete it because there
> are lots of bugs in the issues tracker and no one has been methodically
> tagging them bug or not, so it seemed that the tag was just not that
> helpful.  Just look at Stack's issues list: https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues
> who is tagging things as bugs!

If we go for type:* tags, I’ll help with triaging all issues with type:* tag.

> 
> discuss/enhancement/question are useful and I support tags for them.
> Presently we have "priority: enhancement" but we can rename that as
> needed.

I’d like priorities to have a total-order. high > low is obvious, but what about enhancement and user-question? I’d change latter two into type:*, and maybe later introduce third priority level if we feel we need one.

> 
>> - how priority labels interact with milestones?
> 
> Agreed with Mikhail; priority within milestone.
> 
>> - Should we add “pr welcome” or “awaiting pr” for issues which are discussed, but nobody have interest or time implementing right away (will help new contributors especially when combined with `meta: easy`)
> 
> Sure! I wonder, however; for tickets that are tagged this way, I feel
> the onus is on us to write a clear spec at the top of the bug for what
> is desired (even better: link to a commit with a test!)  Will help
> contributors a lot.

Yes, we should help as much as possible. I’d tag only “clear” issues, and add a comment that I can help with it, if there are some questions (or/and assign it to myself).

Also I forgot to ask about "attention: please-merge”. What’s it purpose, to tag PRs that author thinks are amerceable? IMHO the comment is enough, and also would work for external-contributors, who **cannot** tag issues/prs. (This is the reason why I got push-rights in the first place, I’m still quite uncomfortable pushing changes myself).

And what’s the idea behind “attention: regression”? How it’s different from a `type: bug` (its special case of a bug, but does it matter that much. Regressions could be critical or not, so priority tag, with type:bug would be enough?)

E.g.
    is:open label:"priority: high" label:"bug (ezyang is planning to delete this tag)" milestone:"Cabal 1.26"
filter
 https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aopen%20label%3A%22priority%3A%20high%22%20label%3A%22bug%20(ezyang%20is%20planning%20to%20delete%20this%20tag)%22%20milestone%3A%22Cabal%201.26%22%20 <https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is:open%20label:%22priority:%20high%22%20label:%22bug%20(ezyang%20is%20planning%20to%20delete%20this%20tag)%22%20milestone:%22Cabal%201.26%22%20>

shows not that many.

OTOH there are 210 open issues (is:open is:issue no:milestone) without any milestone. Should we put them all into _|_ - milestone, and then promote to version milestones, when the discussion advanced enough we know when we want to release them (the soonest, or the latest?). As Cabal-1.26 165 open issues indicates, it’s more like “the soonest”, at least at this point.

cabal-install-1.24.0.1 has 12 open issues, should we create cabal-install-1.24.1 -milestone and move them there?

- Oleg
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