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add "umbrella" label for issues about issues #40270

Closed iand closed 3 years ago

iand commented 4 years ago

There are a number of long-running issues that serve as tracking or meta issues for broad bugs or features. These are useful to subscribe to since they have a lower volume of updates than the detail issues and also serve as a reference for the current state of development.

I propose to add a "meta-issue" label for these issues to assist finding them.

This is prompted by my recent discovery of the Go2 review meta issue which is closing after a year's operation. I follow the proposal meta issue and find it very informative. I wish I'd known about the Go2 review issue too.

Examples of issues that could use this label:

ianlancetaylor commented 4 years ago

(Just to be clear, the Go 2 meta issue is not closing, just changing how it works. Nothing against this proposal, which seems fine to me.)

rsc commented 4 years ago

Adding to minutes. We can probably bikeshed the name for quite a long time and I'd rather not. Is there any standard name used by lots of other projects for this?

rsc commented 4 years ago

No one has commented about the name. Discussed more at proposal meeting and are suggesting "umbrella". Or we could take a leap and do "☂️".

iand commented 4 years ago

I think umbrella is a good, generic term that covers the concept nicely.

rsc commented 4 years ago

Based on the (limited) discussion and the fact that this decision is easily changed later (unlike most proposals), this seems like a likely accept.

iand commented 4 years ago

Another candidate for this label: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24661

rsc commented 4 years ago

No change in consensus, so accepted.

rsc commented 4 years ago

Created label; if someone wants to apply it to the relevant issues and then close this one, please do.

dmitshur commented 3 years ago

I've added the label to a few open issues where it seemed fitting. We can keep doing that in the future. Closing since this is done.