GenomicsStandardsConsortium / mixs

Minimum Information about any (X) Sequence” (MIxS) specification
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issue label audit recommended #669

Open turbomam opened 8 months ago

turbomam commented 8 months ago

17 of the 38 issue labels are used by fewer than 2 issues

I suspect that some of the labels are broadly synonymous, too. So we have inconsistent specificity.

This decreases the value of issue labels. One also could ask why we have so many issues that don't have any label.

I propose we

turbomam commented 8 months ago

Many of the issue labels would benefit from a description, too

only1chunts commented 8 months ago

Remember, labels can only be added by people with the relevant permissions in the repo. We should also consider default labels in ticket templates

On Thu, 19 Oct 2023, 01:15 Mark A. Miller, @.***> wrote:

17 of the 38 issue labels https://github.com/GenomicsStandardsConsortium/mixs/labels?sort=count-asc are used by fewer than 2 issues

I suspect that some of the labels are broadly synonymous, too. So we have inconsistent specificity.

This decreases the value of issue labels. One also could ask why we have so many issues that don't have any label.

I propose we

  • delete the majority of the labels
  • check other for overlap
  • provide some guidance about issue labeling and budget time for it too!

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