Chris, it has been over a week. What is the state of undoing the label
and documentation changes?

-J

Am Mi., 17. Juli 2019 um 20:08 Uhr schrieb Jan Piotrowski
<piotrow...@gmail.com>:
>
> By renaming the label, you also renamed it for all existing issues.
> Now many labels that were just questions of users (both open and
> closed) indicate that info is needed - which might be true or not.
>
> Please undo all renaming of labels, both to `info-needed` and `query`.
> Please undo the changes to the label documentation as well.
>
> On the other hand, we all seem to agree that a new additional
> `info-needed` is valid and needed, so to create that and document it
> is totally fine.
>
> It takes some additional effort to maintain labels like this (as you
> of course want to remove it after the user replied), but as I assume
> one/you would only apply the label when also asking for the
> information, you should get a GitHub notification and be able to take
> care of that when reading the response.
>
> Regarding the "question" label, I understand what you mean, but don't
> agree. But that is a topic for a new thread then where we can
> elaborate.
>
> -J
>
>
> Am Mi., 17. Juli 2019 um 18:47 Uhr schrieb Chris Brody 
> <chris.br...@gmail.com>:
> >
> > This work was not done 100% correctly, please accept my apologies.
> >
> > I will try to explain why it was not done 100% correctly so we can
> > decide what we want to do next.
> >
> > In general, I have found the standard “question” label to be confusing
> > since different repos in the wild, including Cordova repos, have used
> > this label in different ways:
> >
> > * on some repos the “question” label was used to indicate that further
> > input was needed from the author of the issue
> > * on some other repos the “question” label was used to indicate that
> > someone was just asking a question
> >
> > On those repos where the “question” label was used to indicate that
> > further input was needed from the user, I took a shortcut and just
> > changed the label to “info-needed”. I thought this was better than
> > changing the label on every single issue where more info was needed.
> >
> > On some other repos I renamed the “question” label to “query”. I think
> > we need either rename the label again, or completely remove this label
> > and change the label on all issues affected.
> >
> > Since I have seen the “question” label used in multiple ways, I now
> > find it confusing. At this point I would favor that we do not use the
> > “question” label due to the potential for confusion.
> >
> > In cases where I renamed the “question” label to “info-needed”, I
> > would like to propose that we do nothing else since the problem is
> > already solved.
> >
> > Over and out.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 2:01 AM Hazem Saleh <haz...@apache.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > I think this is an Excellent idea.
> > >
> > > Thanks and Best Regards
> > >
> > > > On Jul 15, 2019, at 11:07 PM, Chris Brody <chris.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > We receive a number of support issues where I think we need an
> > > > explicit label such as “info needed”, to make it clear that more
> > > > information is needed before we can provide any support. I think we
> > > > need to add this label to a number of repos such as apache/cordova,
> > > > cordova-android, cordova-ios, etc.
> > > >
> > > > Any objections if I would add this label to some of the repos on GitHub?
> > > >
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