Re: Tags in the commitfest app: How to use them and what tags to add?

On Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 12:52 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
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> > On 1 Jul 2025, at 09:33, Jelte Fennema-Nio <me(at)jeltef(dot)nl> wrote:
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> > I quite dislike the current topic system. Partially because it's
> > impossible to filter by a topic (like you can now do with tags), but
> > primarily because the actual available topics very often overlap, and
> > a patch ends up in a random one.
>
> The question is if we shoukd simply remove the topics? UI wise they almost
> disappear in the list and they aren't searchable etc which limits any
> usefulness they might have. Figuring out which topic to use can be quite hard
> even for veteran CF users, so with tags being able to fill the one role they
> had, maybe it's time to just remove them?

I also dislike the current topic UX. But removing them sounded
controversial at the dev meeting in Montreal.

I think it's going to be difficult to have "topic tags" that don't
immediately devolve into "categorization noise." If it's possible to
do it well, that would be very valuable, so I don't want to discourage
people from trying. But I really want the tags to be high-signal,
because they take up a lot of UI real estate.

--Jacob