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

[Kai Striega]

Sounds like a good idea to me. I would also like to second not having a
"python" specific label.

On Sun., 2 Feb. 2020, 02:21 Ralf Gommers, <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:

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