Re: [Tails-dev] Spring cleaning our GitLab labels

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Autore: Zen Fu
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To: intrigeri, The Tails public development discussion list
Oggetto: Re: [Tails-dev] Spring cleaning our GitLab labels
Hi, the only concern that comes to my mind is loss of historical
metadata.

    "If you delete a label, it is permanently deleted. All references to
    the label are removed from the system and you cannot undo the
    deletion." [1]


I'm not sure how important such historical metadata is, though, so maybe
it's not a problem.

If it's desired to maintain such historical metadata, one alternative
could be to rename them and add some flag that means they're deprecated,
like described here[2].

>From my side, feel free to decide how to go about it, I just wanted to

bring some food for thought.

[1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/labels.html
[2] https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/project-management-guidelines/labels/#dont-delete-deprecate
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intrigeri <intrigeri@???> writes:

> Hi,
>
> We've been using GitLab since a while and I think it's a good time to
> make our set of labels a bit leaner and easier to use.
>
> I want to focus on low hanging fruits here. I don't think it's a good
> time to take a step down and do a full revamp of our labels.
>
> I propose we:
>
> 1. Delete these labels
>
>    - Camouflage: no open issues, probably never coming back
>    - I2P: no open issues, probably never coming back
>    - Handbook: only 2 open issues, can be tracked just fine with other
>      labels
>    - Feed Reader: no open issues; can now be tracked with "Email
>      Client" since Thunderbird is our feed reader nowadays
>    - Security Check: 1 open issue, 5 closed issues ⇒ not worth it
>    - Verification Extension: we stopped using this a year ago
>      so at this point I think the drawbacks of keeping this label
>      outweigh the benefits of listing these 48 closed issues

>
> 2. Merge these labels:
>
>    - "C: Installation", "C: Installation Assistant", "C: Installer"
>      → "C: Installation"

>
> 3. Rename these labels:
>
>    - "T: Test" → something that is harder to confuse with "C: Test
>      suite"; ideas welcome; if nothing convincing arises I'll skip
>      this one.

>
> I'm ready to drop any of these ideas if there are objections from
> people who use these labels.
>
> I plan to proceed no earlier than in 2 weeks.
>
> Cheers!
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