a shared housekeeping-label convention across CliMA

[haakon-e]

Context

From the group-meeting discussion on getting an overview of all issues/PRs across CliMA: org-scoped GitHub search (org:CliMA state:open label:"bug 🐞", etc.) already gives a single cross-repo view — see workflow/cross_repo_issue_pr_search.md for the query patterns. That view only works if the relevant labels are applied across the org.

Problem

Labels are not consistent across CliMA repositories. The same concern may be labelled bug in one repo, bug 🐞 in another, and left unlabelled in a third. No single org-scoped query can then find every item in a category, which defeats the cross-repo overview, especially for "housekeeping" tasks.

Proposal

Adopt a common housekeeping label (optionally: per category), used verbatim by people and bots alike, so one org:CliMA … label:<shared label> query is complete.

Concrete actions:

1. Agree the canonical label strings (exact text, including emoji) for the categories that warrant org-wide tracking — e.g. dependencies, release-blocker.

2. Apply the labels uniformly across CliMA repos: create the missing ones; reconcile divergent spellings.

3. Align bots with the convention. Dependabot's labels are set per repo in .github/dependabot.yml; point its labels: at the agreed string:

   updates:
     - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
       directory: "/"
       schedule:
         interval: "weekly"
       labels:
         - "dependencies"

Notes

• Once the label strings are settled, update the recipe table in workflow/cross_repo_issue_pr_search.md so the documented queries match reality.

[haakon-e]

cc: @imreddyTeja, @cmbengue or others who may have input and/or could implement this.

[cmbengue]

cc: @imreddyTeja, @cmbengue or others who may have input and/or could implement this.

All repositories within the CliMA organization have the following labels in common: ["bug", "documentation", "duplicate", "enhancement", "good first issue", "help wanted", "invalid", "question", "wontfix", "SDI"]. The last one is a custom label. Let me know the labels you agree upon, so I can update the list. We can also remove the unused ones.