Re: [RFC] GitLab issue tracker labeling process: arch/target, os, and accel labels

[David Gibson]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 03:56:46PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 6/15/21 4:08 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 01:32:11PM -0400, John Snow wrote:
> > In general, what's the convention when a bug is independent of (say)
> > the accel: does it get none of the accel tags, or all of them?
> > Likewise with OS and the other categories.
> 
> None: remove the label. Otherwise you'll notify everybody subscribed
> to specific labels.
> 
> >> We probably want to keep a set of labels that apply to the host
> >> architecture. These are useful for build failures, environment setup 
> >> issues,
> >> or just documenting the exact environment on which an issue was observed.
> > 
> > Ah.. that's another general question.  Are the labels supposed to
> > document where the problem has been definitely observed, or a best
> > estimate at where it will appear.  It would be very common for a bug
> > to be observed initially on only one, but quickly turn out to be
> > independent of host and/or target arch.
> 
> Similar. If the problem is generic, remove the specific labels.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phil.


Understood, thanks.

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