Re: Pull request labels handling

Anatol Belski wrote: > the PRs on github are already being labeled. Multiple labels are possible. > However the github ACLs lack on granularity > > https://help.github.com/articles/permission-levels-for-an-organization-repos > itory/ . Due to that, while being a useful feature, labeling is only > available for project admins or alike. Now with PHP7 such labeling becomes > probably even more sense as we'll need to handle BC breaks and other > situations which would need more testing and care. So the amount of work to > evaluate and review PRs will grow while the "work team" probably not. > > To improve this, here's an idea originally coming from Ferenc. And it is > simple - the labeling feature could be integrated with our systems using the > github API. That would allow to achieve more granularity on who is allowed > to label. AFAIR there was already some people willing to do labeling, so > that were a great possibility to build such a team. Such pre evaluating and > labeling could possibly prevent some awkward situations, help to sort out > potential issues and BC breaches. > > Thus asking for opinions. As it stands completely open - does this idea > sound eligible, how can it be integrated, who is yet up for the pre > evaluation/labeling job? Or any other propositions. In my humble opinion it would be great if it's feasible. There is also the related "GitHub Pull Requests Triage Team" RFC[1] – maybe it's worth to revive it, but it appears to me all this can be done without an (approved) RFC. [1] <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/github-pr> -- Christoph M. Becker