thunderbird
Add GitHub label configuration
The GitHub labels are now derived from a configuration. This aims to simplify their setup and streamline their structure.
This adds descriptions where they have been missing.
Have a look.
Use github-label-sync to mangage labels:
github-label-sync --access-token {GITHUB_TOKEN} --dry-run --labels .github/labels.json thunderbird/thunderbird-android
Remove --dry-run once your satisfied.
What benefit do we get from using this? To me, it feels like it just makes adding/updating labels more complicated than it needs to be.
What benefit do we get from using this? To me, it feels like it just makes adding/updating labels more complicated than it needs to be.
I used it to organise our GitHub labels and it made my work way easier.
I don't think it's necessary to keep a copy of labels.json in the repository. It'll just be a question of time before what is configured in GitHub and the file will disagree. That could be solved with automation to keep the two in sync. But changing labels is not something we do nearly often enough to justify spending time on that.
If the tool works for you, that's great. You could document your approach in the docs/ folder.
Fine if you don't like it here, I'll create a repository to host it instead. But in case that should be automated, it makes more sense here.
It'll just be a question of time before what is configured in GitHub and the file will disagree.
But that happens hopefully purposely.