JBS Modification Proposal: Don't inherit master bug labels when creating backport records

[Kevin Rushforth]

This seems like a good idea to me. FWIW, the records created by the 
Skara bot initially inherit the labels, and the bot then does a 
follow-on step of clearing the. This change would eliminate that extra 
step by the bots.

-- Kevin

On 6/23/2022 9:31 AM, Seán Coffey wrote:
> Since the launch of the OpenJDK Jira Bug System, the default behaviour 
> of the manual "Create Backport" action has been to inherit the master 
> bug labels for the newly created backport record. The experience for 
> most when manually creating a backport record is to delete all 
> inherited labels. In comparison, nowadays, the vast majority of 
> backport records are created by bots (e.g. Dukebot) upon pushing a 
> change to a project repo. These automated bots don't inherit labels 
> from the master bug. That approach fits better since all processes 
> that I'm aware of ask that project tracking labels be added to the 
> master bug only.
>
> I'd like to propose a JBS infra change whereby the manual "Create 
> Backport" action adopts the bot position of creating backports with no 
> labels. Are there any comments/concerns with such a tweak ?
>
> regards,
> Sean.
>