[RFC] Issue label clean up

[Justin Slone (JustSlone)]

Trying out posting an RFC in discussions let's see how this goes

Contributors: Paul Gildea (@paulgildea), Justin Slone (@JustSlone)
Review requested: Chris Holt (@chrisdholt) (web-components), Juraj Kapsiar (@jurokapsiar) (react-northstar)

Problem statement

As part of working on streamlining our issue triage and management process, the large number of unused labels is getting in the way. It will be easier to properly label issues without too many extraneous choices.

Proposal

The high level goals of the cleanup are:

• Clean up extra Area: labels we don't use
• Keep all component tags, these are valuable
• Clean up priority and status, move from Pri 0-3 to Important/Urgent
• Avoid various nice to have labels, labels should be important for working with and following up on issues

Some top level changes/suggestions:

• Move from sending questions to stack overflow to use discussions in github
• Remove Priority 0-3, replace with only high priority
• From a workflow standpoint, we should focus on getting issues to "Status: Fix Proposed", "Status: Future Consider", or saying No to the change (for right now) and closing the issue.
• We also should make better use of "Help Wanted" and "Good First Issue" labels

Labels to keep

Label	count	Comment
Area: Accessibility	175	Keeping the common areas
Area: Build System	34
Area: Documentation	58
Area: Packaging	4
Area: Performance	9
Area: Samples	1
Area: Testing	10
Area: Theming	21
Area: Typescript	4
Area: UI Builder	3
Area: Website	27
AutoMerge		Needed for bot
Community Contribution		This is for things that the community is doing
Component: *		Keep all of these
During snap	1	Keep for now
External
Fabric 5
Fabric 6	2
Fabric 7	9
Fluent UI react-northstar		90
Fluent UI reactf	265
Fluent UI v8	30
Good First Issue 🏆	4	Use this for simple issues good for new contributors
Help Wanted ✨	9	We need to use this more to tag issues that are ready for someone to pickup and fix
High Contrast	16
Issue Pinged	8
Needs: Actionable Feedback 🕵️‍♀️	1	Keeping the main "needs" labels
Needs: API Breaking Change		Change to just "Breaking Change"
Needs: Attention 👋	10
Needs: Author Feedback
Needs: Backlog review	301
Needs: Design 🎨	41
Needs: Discussion 🙋	93
Needs: Investigation	222
Needs: Project Propsoal	1
Needs: Triage 🔍	33
Package: azure-themes	2
Package: charting	53
Package: codemods
Package: dashboard
Package: date-time	14
Package: experiments	8
Package: file-type-icons
Package: fluent-theme
Package: keyboard-key
Package: mdl2-theme
Package: merge-styles	16
Package: migration
Package: react-hooks
Package: styling	2
Package: tslint-rules	1
Package: tsx-editor	3
Package: utilities	5
Partner Ask	1
PR: API Modified	7	Is this a bot thing?
PR: Possible Perf Regression 🐌	2
Pri: Important		Add this for important work that needs to get done
Pri: Urgent		Add this for urgent work that has a time component
Resolution: By Design
Resolution: Can't Repro	2
Resolution: Duplicate
Resolution: External	3
Resolution: Not An Issue
Resolution: Won't Fix
Screen-size: small-screen	1
Shield Examples	1
Status: Blocked	11
Status: Do Not Merge 🚫	4
Status: Fix Proposed	6	New label for issues with recomended fixes
Status: Fixed	7
Status: Future Consider	1	New label for issues we won't consider right now
Status: In PR	17
Status: No Recent Activity	1
Theme Designer	8	Rename -> Area: Theme Designer
Type: Bug 🐛	245
Type: Documentation	12
Type: Epic	13
Type: Feature	295
Type: Regression 🌩🌩	2
Type: RFC	3
v8 snap: needs cherry-pick	8	Keep for now
v8 snap: potential conflict	1	Keep for now
web-components	5

Labels to Remove

Label	count	Proposal
A11yUsable	4	Remove - Track accessibility in ADO mainly
Area: AMD Modules		Remove not used
Area: Animation		Remove not used
Area: Deprecation		Remove not used
Area: DevExp	5	Remove not used
Area: Fabric Bot		Remove not used
Area: Fluent	5	Remove not used
Area: Fonts	8	Remove not used
Area: Foundation	1	Remove not used
Area: Icons	24	Remove use Component: Icon
Area: Internationalization		Remove not used
Area: JS Styling	5	Remove not used
Area: Keros		Remove not used
Area: Narrator	51	Remove - Don't need to query on these issues
Area: NVDA	8	Remove - Don't need to query on these issues
Area: RTL	4	Remove
Area: Slots/Tokens Conversion	1	Remove
Area: SPFx / Rush-Stack		Remove
Area: SSR	4	Remove
Area: Strict Mode		Remove
Area: VoiceOver	6	Remove
AT: JAWS	2	Remove
Azure	6	Remove -> Partner Ask
Contribution Candidate	15	Change -> Help Wanted
dependencies		Remove
Needs: Behavior Breaking Change	1	Merge with API Breaking change -> "Breaking Change"
Needs details		Remove
Needs Dev Input	9	Remove
Needs: Prototyping	2	Remove
Platform: Chrome Android	5	Remove
Platform: Chrome	5	Remove
Platform: Firefox	1	Remove
Platform: IE11	4	Remove
Platform: Microsoft Edge	17	Remove
Platform: Safari	6	Remove
Priority 0: Blocking		Remove
Priority 1: ASAP	5	Remove
Priority 2: Normal	60	Remove
Priority 3: Fit and finish	23	Remove
Stack Overflow	2	Remove use Discussions update new issue template
Theme: Dark	2	Remove
Type: Cleanup	33	Remove
Type: Question ❔	22	Remove use discussions
v6		Remove
WCAG 2.1	7	Remove

Follow up

• Update issue template to remove stack overflow mention
• Update bot rules around stack overflow