Re: Thoughts on tagging docs issues in GitLab

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

Added wrinkle I just thought of: In Bugzilla, we had default assignees
for some docs components set to gnome-user-docs-maint gnome bugs and gn
ome-devel-docs-maint gnome bugs. There were also docs components that
didn't use these default assignees, especially for software that wasn't
core GNOME.

We used these default assignees as a poor but passable way of knowing
which components were under the docs team's maintainership, and thus
which modules we could commit to directly.

I don't think introducing different GitLab labels for this is a good
idea. I don't have any other great ideas either. Maybe the answer is
that we should embrace the merge request workflow, with a select few of
us keeping tabs on where we can do merges without module maintainer
approval.

More thoughts?

--
Shaun

On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 11:45 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> GNOME has begun a slow migration to GitLab. This includes using
> GitLab
> instead of Bugzilla for bugs going forward. We need to figure out a
> way
> to get a handle on docs bugs across projects.
>
> GitLab issues don't have components like Bugzilla, so it doesn't have
> any sort of per-component default assignee that we can abuse to
> assign
> things to the docs team. Instead, we have labels. Luckily, you can
> search for labels across projects.
>
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/groups/GNOME/issues?label_name[]=documentati
> on
>
> That's all issues tagged with "documentation" across any project
> under
> the GNOME group. The "documentation" tag is one of the prepopulated
> tags that GitLab recommends.
>
> Standardized tag names for docs will help us a lot. Heck, we never
> did
> manage to get standardized component names for docs in Bugzilla. If
> we
> get out in front of this thing, we can do better.
>
> I would be perfectly happy with the preopulated "documentation" tag,
> except that it's going to get used for both user and developer docs.
> There are generally two completely different collections of eyeballs
> looking at those lists.
>
> What about "userdocs" and "develdocs"? Or (uglier) "docsuser" and
> "docsdevel" so they sort together and show up in a list where you'd
> expect to see "docs" or "documentation"?
>
> Discuss.
>
> --
> Shaun
>
>
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