Outdated labels table

[dawei-wang]

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/Community/MDN_content

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What we need help with

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

The table links lead to issue labels that are blank.

What did you expect to see?

I expected to see an updated table and text introducing the table.

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

https://github.com/mdn/content/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22time%3A+-30mins%22
https://github.com/mdn/content/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22time%3A+-3hr%22
https://github.com/mdn/content/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22time%3A+-2days%22

Do you have anything more you want to share?

FWIW , I like the time-based labeling scheme because it helped me manage my time. Small, medium, and large effort are harder to quantify. I would like to know the reasoning behind changing the labels.

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• Folder: en-us/mdn/community/mdn_content
• MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/Community/MDN_content
• GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/mdn/community/mdn_content/index.md
• Last commit: 4c6b993
• Document last modified: 2023-01-26T17:04:22.000Z

[Josh-Cena]

I would like to know the reasoning behind changing the labels.

Here's some relevant conversation:

Florian Scholz: I know GitHub labels are being work on, I'm just here to say that labels like "https://github.com/mdn/content/labels/time%3A%20-30mins" with the tooltip "Less than 30 mins. A quick task." are not encouraging 😄 30 minutes for whom?! More like 300 minutes for me to read into the details of this one, for example #4713

Brian Smith: Totally agree, I think the original purpose of these was for contributors to gauge how much time they would need to fix something. We might move to something more generic like

effort: small - Task is a small effort.
effort: medium - Task is a medium effort.
effort: large - Task is large effort.

Florian Scholz: That looks much better. I mean sometimes changing one sentence can take 2 hours whereas creating a new page can be like 20 minutes if you know the subject well etc.

FWIW, these labels are kind of arbitrarily assigned anyway, and there isn't a fixed metric about what's a small vs. medium task. It could well turn out that a seemingly small task would need to involve tens of pages to be fixed properly.

[dawei-wang]

Thanks for the insight @Josh-Cena. I'll go ahead and change the links to reflect the small, medium, and large effort labels. It doesn't help our readers much if links lead to blank pages.