labels

This repository exist only to make cloning labels easy.

Inspired by the flutter/flutter repository and two open-source repositories I had maintained for a longer time – mobile-dev-inc/maestro and leancodepl/patrol.

Usage

To copy labels from this repo into your repo:

gh label clone bartekpacia/labels

To delete all labels:

gh label list --json name | jq -r '.[] .name' | xargs -I {} gh label delete --yes {}

List all labels in the Flutter repo (which is an inspiration):

gh label list --repo flutter/flutter --limit 500 --sort name

Label philosophy

Only core labels, that I find generally useful in any project, are included in this repository. You will likely want to add more project-specific labels.

Platform-specific labels

create

gh label create 'platform: android' -c 30B805 -d 'Testing Android apps is affected'
gh label create 'platform: ios' -c 295D99 -d 'Testing iOS apps is affected'
gh label create 'platform: web' -c 91529 -d 'Testing web apps is affected'

Use prefixes to group labels

p for package, e.g. package: camera, package: video_player
a for area, e.g. a: accessibility, a: layout, a: tests
t for tool, e.g. t: gradle, t: xcode
customer for customer-specific labels, e.g. customer: toyota, customer: fuchsia. For non-public customer names, codenames can be made-up, e.g. customer: cars to not say "Toyota" out loud.

Use colors to convey meaning

For platform: android label, set the color to green – because green is associated with Android
For priority labels, set the color to red – because red is associated with danger. The lower the priority, the less intense red is.
Keep label colors consistent across repositories you maintain/work on regularly.