Automatically label GitHub issues

[Piedone]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Labels help find related issues, like ones for GraphQL. However, adding labels is a chore, can only be done by a core contributor, and it's infrequent that we actually remember doing it.

Describe the solution you'd like

Try an auto-label solution like https://github.com/github/issue-labeler or https://github.com/Renato66/auto-label.

Describe alternatives you've considered

You can also use text search to find issues, of course, but an issue containing e.g. the "GraphQL" text doesn't necessarily actually mean that the issue is for the GraphQL module. This is also a problem with auto-labeling: a human needs to check. But that's still easier (and more apparent to do) than adding labels.

[hishamco]

I remember that ASP.NET Core team did that back on the day, it was very helpful

+1 for labeling the issues

[Piedone]

Do you have some pointers to that? That repo doesn't have a workflow for this.

[hishamco]

I remember I have an ML model for that, let me check the GitHub workflow

[hishamco]

https://github.com/dotnet/issue-labeler

I will recheck once I have time if that's the repo

[Piedone]

Ah, interesting! This looks a bit too much of a heavy hitter for us (having to run an app for it) and Microsoft-specific but generally something that we could use.

[hishamco]

You remind me of the time when the ASP.NET Core time unified the repos, then I saw a quick demo for an ML.NET model which was interested at that time to me :)

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