Useful categorisation
* I’d favour using colour to separate the different groups.
* I think we could collapse 4 and 5 into one group (one colour)
Simon
From: Ben Gamari
Sent: 18 March 2019 21:39
To: Simon Peyton Jones
Subject: GHC | Work out how to manage labels (#16458)
Currently ghc/ghc>https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.haskell.org%2Fghc%2Fghc&data=02%7C01%7Csimonpj%40microsoft.com%7C6a2447979c854125a26a08d6abea2932%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636885419542581319&sdata=akt90WXNG6MsBivPVz5cwp88pBaznwo7rya6YnzsBNg%3D&reserved=0 has nearly 100 labels. These fall into a variety of categories:
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3. Labels that specify the environmental conditions under which an issue will manifest:
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1. Labels that specify which compiler or program features are implicated in a bug
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* compiler feature: recompilation checkinghttps://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.haskell.org%2Fghc%2Fghc%2Fissues%3Flabel_name%3Drecompilation%2Bchecking&data=02%7C01%7Csimonpj%40microsoft.com%7C6a2447979c854125a26a08d6abea2932%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636885419542661228&sdata=VGFbg3W4FrV0Elt0yal1fuHEzMrl0seYSrJB86uL7S0%3D&reserved=0, cpphttps://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.haskell.org%2Fghc%2Fghc%2Fissues%3Flabel_name%3Dcpp&data=02%7C01%7Csimonpj%40microsoft.com%7C6a2447979c854125a26a08d6abea2932%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636885419542661228&sdata=QVE%2BH1ZpcdABUUdNf9lfDzmQchsqnlMdHuq9h1dzTac%3D&reserved=0, debug informationhttps://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.haskell.org%2Fghc%2Fghc%2Fissues%3Flabel_name%3Ddebug%2Binformation&data=02%7C01%7Csimonpj%40microsoft.com%7C6a2447979c854125a26a08d6abea2932%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636885419542671225&sdata=HD210%2Fv%2F9QsAUh6RuDK%2B0CvhHcxEafEcRUaqdejbO9c%3D&reserved=0, ~"cross compilation"
1. Labels that specify which bit of implementation a bug is likely caused by:
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* external project: haddockhttps://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.haskell.org%2Fghc%2Fghc%2Fissues%3Flabel_name%3Dhaddock&data=02%7C01%7Csimonpj%40microsoft.com%7C6a2447979c854125a26a08d6abea2932%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636885419542711201&sdata=x30e6tTiooeJ1Kgk4HHoJSajrN3ygjJU9JRc8N7JnRI%3D&reserved=0, hadrianhttps://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.haskell.org%2Fghc%2Fghc%2Fissues%3Flabel_name%3Dhadrian&data=02%7C01%7Csimonpj%40microsoft.com%7C6a2447979c854125a26a08d6abea2932%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C636885419542721194&sdata=QhtxxmeHbyW0t%2FE5ty0XkScnzsaSl6VQxPkaCG9ln4k%3D&reserved=0
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It's not clear which of these are useful, which are just noise, and how we should best group them.
We have two tools for logically grouping labels:
* prefixing the label name with some sort of category string
* color
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