Labels vs. Tags in Jira

[Basil Brunner]

Hi all,

recently I proposed to start tagging easy to solve issues with ‘Quickfix’ [1]. As I now wanted to add tags to some tickets I realized that there are two fields used for tagging:

- Labels
- Tags (folksonomy)

Is there a reason for having two fields with (almost) the same purpose or could we remove one of them?


- Basil

[1] https://groups.google.com/a/opencast.org/d/msg/matterhorn/XwX15ZNBsOY/onNCVwyc2QwJ
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[James Perrin]

Hi,

I think I or someone else asked this question a couple of years ago.
Can't for the life of me find the post or the answer.

James

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[Greg Logan]

I believe the reason was historical inertial. I know most of the labelling/tagging was done using the tags field when I was QA, I assume it's still the same. I'd say get rid of the label field.

G

On Mar 13, 2015 4:26 AM, "James Perrin" <james.s...@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:

Hi,

  I think I or someone else asked this question a couple of years ago. Can't for the life of me find the post or the answer.

James

On 12/03/15 07:28, Basil Brunner wrote:

Hi all,

recently I proposed to start tagging easy to solve issues with
‘Quickfix’ [1]. As I now wanted to add tags to some tickets I
realized that there are two fields used for tagging:

- Labels - Tags (folksonomy)

Is there a reason for having two fields with (almost) the same
purpose or could we remove one of them?


- Basil

[1]
https://groups.google.com/a/opencast.org/d/msg/matterhorn/XwX15ZNBsOY/onNCVwyc2QwJ

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[Lars Kiesow]

…then hereby I officially #propose removing the labels from Jira.

Though I think no one will complain, there are a couple of tickets that
use labels after all and I wouldn't just want to silently remove this
field without proposal. I'll remove it as soon as this has passed.

Regards,
Lars