I am currently favoring a solution closer to Daniel's proposal. We want this to be as simple as possible because this is aimed specifically at those that do not have write access. Asking a newcomer to not only submit an issue/PR but then also send an additional PR with proposed labels is raising a high barrier to participation. Daniel suggested having them prepend suggested labels to the title. I think we could even get away with an even easier solution: instruct them on how to write an informative title. If I see a title like "Updated explanation of novice Python exercise on writing a function to concatenate strings", I can easily jump over to GitHub and quickly add the labels "novice" and "Python". But if the title is "Updated exercise", then I have little idea what the PR is about.
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 11:19 PM, W. Trevor King <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 11:37:00PM -0400, Daniel Chen wrote: >> The 'simplest' way would be to append or pre-pend a text tag in the >> issue name until a collaborator officially tags it > > That's at least a click per tag acceptance, while my PR-based proposal > is one command (nmbug pull) to publish an arbitrary number of > suggested tags ;). I don't even have to open a browser (and with > nmbug's shared-push-access approach, you wouldn't even need maintainer > interaction). Still, I agree that it's better to use the solution we > have than the more efficient solution we don't have :p. A few extra > clicks by folks with write access probably won't kill us ;). > > Cheers, > Trevor > > -- > This email may be signed or encrypted with GnuPG (http://www.gnupg.org). > For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
