[SciPy-Dev] language labels in github issues/PRs?

[Ralf Gommers]

On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 6:59 PM Lucas Roberts <rlucas7 at vt.edu> wrote:

> Hi scipy-dev,
>
> I was looking at my stack of emails for scipy and noticed some comments on:
> https://github.com/scipy/scipy/issues/3203#
> and that the c code is involved. In the past I've marked these types of
> emails for myself to flag for follow up (e.g. I'd like to work on them if
> still open in the future). Problem is that the stack of these flags gets
> too large in my inbox. I noticed there aren't tags for language in the
> scipy github. Scipy has C, C++, Cython, Fortran, and Python (I think that
> is all) used in various places.
>
> My question is would it be helpful to have language tags?
>

Sounds like a good idea to me, +1 for "language: Fortran" and "language
Cython" tags. Not sure if C and C++ should be separate or together.

Cheers,
Ralf


> We probably wouldnt' want a python tag but if an issue or a PR touches
> C/C++/Cython/fortran adding a label would help discoverability and
> exclusion.
>
> This might help searching of new contributors and for core team, e.g. you
> could search for issues touching c code (in my case) or exclude issues
> touching fortran (also my case, I don't know fortran).
>
> I didn't know how to exclude it Github and learned that it has some
> searching functionality that allows to exclude issues/PRs with certain tags:
>
>
> https://help.github.com/en/github/searching-for-information-on-github/searching-issues-and-pull-requests#search-by-label
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> -Lucas
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