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

[Langer, Christoph]

This sounds like a good proposal.

Cheers
Christoph

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdk-dev <jdk-dev-retn at openjdk.org> On Behalf Of Seán Coffey
> Sent: Donnerstag, 23. Juni 2022 18:32
> To: jdk-dev <jdk-dev at openjdk.java.net>; jdk-updates-dev <jdk-updates-
> dev at openjdk.java.net>
> Subject: JBS Modification Proposal: Don't inherit master bug labels when
> creating backport records
> 
> 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.