On 25 July 2018 at 02:19, Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
As the person who chose the colour scheme, I'll try to explain why I did it the way I did. :)
If you look at https://github.com/python/cpython/labels you will notice all related labels that have the same prefix are the same colour unless there is a reason to make it stand out (e.g. type-security). The colours also try to use appropriate colours to represent whether the label requires attention (e.g. the "needs" labels are yellow as essentially that label represents why that PR has not been merged yet).
Finally, I'm enough of a visual learner that I can look at an issue and notice by colour when a label is missing. So out of habit I make sure colours are distinct so I can visually notice when an issue is lacking a certain issue type.
But I'm not attached to any of this, so if someone wants to come up with a colour scheme that people can generally agree to I'm fine with changing the colours (I would prefer to avoid changing the label names, though, as that potentially will break bots and scripts, plus I hate labels that are not self-describing as they suck for new people).
My comment about choosing neutral colours was mainly aimed at any *new* labels beyond the ones we already have. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia