[pre-]populating with GitHub labels

[plehegar]

There is no way to import labels to a [new] repo. Instead, one has to add them by hand.

This would allow WGs to reuse the same labels and to provide on top of that a consistent tool that would output a disposition of comments.

Labels are also listed here https://w3c.github.io/issue-metadata.html

[dontcallmedom]

some thoughts:

• for new repos, ash-nazg might be a logical place to set default labels
• for existing repos, ash-nazg could help when importing; and maybe we make it available independently of importing (and make ash-nazg a generic repo manager, not just from an IPR perspective?)
• we could also add a test in the repo validator to check which repos have aligned their labels or not

[tripu]

“There is no way to import labels to a [new] repo. Instead, one has to add them by hand.”

I'm not saying groups should do this (it's cumbersome) but, for the record, @sandhawke documented a way to import labels programmatically, and suggested an initial set of labels of his own.

“This would allow WGs to reuse the same labels and to provide on top of that a consistent tool that would output a disposition of comments.”

There was more or less agreement about merging Sandro's labels with the ones already in this repo. Anyway, the set here has been extended and redefined in the meantime, so I propose we consider the suggested labels good enough, and forget about them until we get significant feedback after some time.

Anyway, +1 to @dontcallmedom's suggestion about doing this from the Repo Manager at some point.

[plehegar]

@tripu should this be co-assigned to you if you're looking at ash-nazg?