[PROPOSAL] Issue groups - refer to GitLab

[bryanpedini]

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Description

It would be nice to have in a distant future, for better management and bot integrations like on single categories, label groups via :: in the middle of a label name, signaling the software "use the first part before the "keyword" as group name and the second part as the group member", or something like that.
See attached screenshots of GitLab.com:

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[lafriks]

imho we should use / as label group separator. Does this only affect how they are displayed?

[bryanpedini]

imho we should use / as label group separator.

Whatever makes the backend distinguish between the group name and the group member should be all right to me...

Does this only affect how they are displayed?

I think so, it is just a graphical enhancement, in fact in the list they're still the same (complete text also with separator):

[locnide]

I may use label groups to interact with kanban/projects in the future (with a bot) : for example, putting the label scope/X would automatically send the issue in the project X and status/Y would be set when moving the issue in the column.
Therefore, I think that having a way to display those groups in the interface would be a nice feature.
I also use scoped labels for priorities. (and currently use the "::" separator from gitlab)

[bryanpedini]

It is useless to note, that better integrations would benefit everyone, using :: as delimiter, exactly like GitLab would render bots and plugins much easier for both parties since they share the same "principle technology behind" 😃

[locnide]

Does this only affect how they are displayed?

Actually, in gitlab labels that are in the same "scope/group" are mutually exclusive and can't be present on the same issue. But a display-only would be enough I think.

[bryanpedini]

But a display-only would be enough I think.

I agree, with the ability to perform external hooks when a label gets added / removed to an issue, but that I think it's probably a different issue altogether.

[bryanpedini]

is bumping legal here?
on a more serious note: is this FR still in consideration in the future? it would be a nice-to-have

(no, I haven't learned Go that well yet to even draft a PR... sadly...)

[wxiaoguang]

I think #17189 is also related.

Since Gitea is an open source project, most features heavily depend users' contributions. ps: there are some issues like #17244 to attract attentions.

[bryanpedini]

Thank you for pointing that out.

[brechtvl]

I believe this can be closed now, further improvements to this are being tracked in #22974.