Support to delete/remove labels

[patcon]

Hi again!

I'm seeing the ability to delete/remove labels in settings/lib/plugins/labels.js, but am I correct in finding that it hasn't been implemented yet?

It seems fairly niche, but for creating starter project templates for tech and GitHub beginners, it would be nice to clean-up the default GitHub labels to make things as clear as possible, in case they don't suit a project type :)

Any preference on how this might be done? My first inclination is to allow this would be to allow one of these:

# option A
labels:
  - name: wontfix
    delete: true

# option B
labels:
  - deletename: wontfix

# option C
labels:
  - oldname: wontfix

Before I jump in, can anyone offer advice on:

• What's possible with current arch?
• Are any of the above are good or bad patterns?

Thanks!

[knrt10]

@patcon this is really a nice idea. It can surely help beginners. If I am right it can be implemented with the current architecture. You have to make changes in settings/lib/plugins/labels.js file to implement these changes, if I am right about what you want to do. You need to add some parameters in .github/settings.yml file to so that you can get the attributes from them and try them to update or delete them using the functions in settings/lib/plugins/labels.js file.

[patcon]

Hm. I'm reading through, and thinking maybe I'm not reasoning around this correctly, but... is this already removing labels that aren't mentioned explicitly in the settings.yml: https://github.com/probot/settings/blob/32a359d4c6104d789fe9c95691492d04660b753e/lib/plugins/diffable.js#L46-L50

EDIT: no pressure to reply, i will learn myself later, and maybe contribute some small changes that try to may make it more legible to a rookie programmer like myself :)

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