[PATCH 00/11] Add labels support

[Andrew Donnellan]

On 09/08/18 18:54, Daniel Axtens wrote:
>> This series starts work on the latter of these by addressing yet another
>> issues, #22 [3]. Full details of the feature are provided inline but
>> tl;dr labels are arbitrary bits of metadata that can be used to
>> represent some of the more orthogonal states like "RFC" or "Under
>> Review" along with other maintainer-provided labels. Once we have
>> support for this, we can build upon it to migrate some of the 'states'
>> to labels and the 'state' field itself to a boolean field. This is all
>> in the future though.
> 
> So I haven't read through the patches in great detail, but I want to
> just query the idea that RFC is orthogonal. I understand a bunch of
> maintainers have a general policy of not merging RFC patches, so if
> something is posted as RFC they just mark it as RFC on Patchwork and
> then don't ever look at it again.

+ mpe: I think we touched on this issue of the orthogonality of the RFC 
classification when we were chatting about snowpatch things the other day?

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