In the latest iteration, 
https://34.105.185.241/sagemath/sage-all-2023-01-14-009/issues, I have 
switched to the shorter prefix "c: " for components.

Regarding the component labels, we have an ongoing discussion 
in https://github.com/sagemath/trac-to-github/issues/99


On Tuesday, January 17, 2023 at 11:08:15 AM UTC-8 Matthias Koeppe wrote:

> On Tuesday, January 17, 2023 at 2:10:24 AM UTC-8 john.c...@gmail.com 
> wrote:
> I think it is fine to have many different labels for issues, as we have 
> many components.  But why was it thought necessary to have all the 
> component labels start with "component:"?  That seems redundant. It does 
> mean that all the components come almost first in the list of labels ("bug" 
> is at the top which is fine), with the dozen or so non-component labels 
> other than bug all at the bottom of the list.  If we could prefix all the 
> non-component labels instead with something very small which was allowed by 
> GitHub and which made them all come first, then we could remove the 
> "component:" prefix from the majority.
>
> Controlling the sort order in the drop down list of the Issues UI was the 
> reason for using label prefixes. That's why we have "component: " as well 
> as "p1 –".... "p5 – " for the priority.
>
> Tobias' initial proposal was to use the single letter "c: " as the prefix 
> for components. I thought it would be too cryptic, so I went with the whole 
> word "component: ". But I'd be happy to change it if "c: " (or some other 
> idea) seems preferable to others.
>
>  
>

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