Support GitHub/Prow labeling for issue/PR triage

[kwiesmueller]

We're onboarding new contributors who are looking for issues and PRs to work on. To make it easier for new folks to onboard to a certain area I'd like to suggest that we open up the selection of area labels so issues and PRs can be tagged as cluster-autoscaler, vertical-pod-autoscaler, addon-resizer by people more easily.

I'd recommend using the /area command.

To do this it should be enough that we rename the existing labels to have the area/ prefix. More testing is needed, but we'll need help from an existing maintainer.

/kind cleanup /cc @mwielgus

[jbartosik]

I like the idea of allowing people to tag issues.

[Shubham82]

@kwiesmueller is there any update on this issue?

[kwiesmueller]

I didn't get a chance to work on this. Feel free to pick it up if interested.

[Shubham82]

I think maintainers(owners of the autoscaling repo) have the right to add labels.

[Shubham82]

cc @mwielgus @gjtempleton @MaciekPytel could you please take a look?

[Shubham82]

/triage accepted

[gjtempleton]

Yeah, it'll require some work from a repo admin.

Bits that I think will need to be done and who can do them:

• [ ] Create new versions of existing labels with area/ prefix (Needs to be done by a repo admin)
• [ ] Update auto-labelling of PRs/issues to use the new labels - probably want to cherry-pick this back to all currently supported release branches to ensure consistency going forward (PRs from anyone can cover this.)
• [ ] (Not sure if worth doing this/can we do it programmatically?) Update past issues/PRs to migrate labels to ensure consistency across PRs/issues. (Addition of new labels should be doable by anyone, I think removal of old ones would have to be a repo admin?)

Anything people think is missing here and any thoughts on whether point 3 is worth doing?

[Shubham82]

Yeah, it'll require some work from a repo admin.

Bits that I think will need to be done and who can do them:

• [ ] Create new versions of existing labels with area/ prefix (Needs to be done by a repo admin)
• [ ] Update auto-labelling of PRs/issues to use the new labels - probably want to cherry-pick this back to all currently supported release branches to ensure consistency going forward (PRs from anyone can cover this.)
• [ ] (Not sure if worth doing this/can we do it programmatically?) Update past issues/PRs to migrate labels to ensure consistency across PRs/issues. (Addition of new labels should be doable by anyone, I think removal of old ones would have to be a repo admin?)

Anything people think is missing here and any thoughts on whether point 3 is worth doing?

Thanks @gjtempleton, It sounds good to me.

[Shubham82]

/remove-kind bug /kind feature

[voelzmo]

Overall this would be great to have!

Anything people think is missing here and any thoughts on whether point 3 is worth doing?

I'm wondering if we would get this for free if instead of creating new labels we would rename the existing ones?

[gjtempleton]

I'm wondering if we would get this for free if instead of creating new labels we would rename the existing ones?

Looks like the answer is yes. I've just experimented with the helm-charts label renaming it to area/helm-charts and carries over.

Next question I guess is which labels we want to make this change to, just the relevant sub-projects contained within the repo?

[Shubham82]

Hi @gjtempleton @voelzmo what about the renaming of the following labels:

addon-resizer  -> area/addon-resizer
cluster-autoscaler -> area/cluster-autoscaler
balancer -> area/balancer
core-autoscaler -> area/core-autoscaler
vertical-pod-autoscaler -> area/vertical-pod-autoscaler
vertical-pod-atuoscaler/prometheus -> area/vertical-pod-atuoscaler/prometheus

I checked and selected these labels, if you have any suggestions, please let us know.

Thanks!

[voelzmo]

sounds good to me. We don't have to get everything on the first shot, so this seems like a good start! Thanks, @Shubham82!

[Shubham82]

Thanks @voelzmo for taking a look at this.

[gjtempleton]

OK, I've updated the labels suggested by you @Shubham82 and created #6506 to update the auto-labels applied on the creation of PRs.

[Shubham82]

OK, I've updated the labels suggested by you @Shubham82 and created #6506 to update the auto-labels applied on the creation of PRs.

Thanks, @gjtempleton for the above PR.