[core-workflow] Prefix GitHub labels to group them?

Guido van Rossum gvanrossum at gmail.com
Fri May 26 20:52:15 EDT 2017


We have such a convention in mypy too. GitHub.com/python/mypy/labels.

On May 26, 2017 5:34 PM, <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:

coala uses full word prefixes for type, size, importance, and difficulty.

https://github.com/coala/coala/labels

And has a bot that auto labels when the suffixes are used in the issue/PR
message.


On Sat, 27 May 2017 05:48 Usman Ehtesham <uehtesham90 at gmail.com> wrote:

> My vote is on full word prefixes (small words where and when possible)
>
> > On May 26, 2017, at 5:36 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> >
> > Something the Rust project does is prefix all their labels with a single
> letter to have alphabetical sorting keep similar labels together. For
> instance, using the "T - " prefix to group all type-related label like
> bugfix, enhancement, etc. This is all done to make it easy to find all
> labels for a certain thing.
> >
> > Do people like this idea for labels that don't naturally have a common
> prefix? If so would people want the single letter prefix or full word
> prefixes?
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