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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
full-stack

Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing patch states and the requirements in this issue, then read the linked GitHub Labels and StackExchange tagging resources. Consider issues #4 and #18 for related work. Done should support arbitrary labels on patches, filtering by them, and the stated exclusions for version and series information.

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Description

enhancement

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Overview

It should be possible to associate an arbitrary number of "labels" with any given patch in the web UI. These labels will function similarly to GitHub's Issue Labels or StackExchanges' Tags. This will allow filtering of patches destined for a specific release, priorities, etc. Some of these tags could be extracted from the subject, though we'd want to exclude versioning information (v2, V2) and series information (01/10) from this.

Dependencies

N/A

Additional Work Items

The addition of labels could allow for the the removal of some of the less useful default states, such as RFC, feeding into issue #4.

Labels could also be autogenerated by the rules that #18 would introduce.

Alternatives

Patch "categories" are another, more specific option. These would allow us to group patches by release, etc. but would not allow for things like labeling.

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