Can we add crate tags for issues/PR's

[Rich-T-kid]

Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge?

Could we add crate tags on issues and pull requests, similar to what DataFusion does with physical-plan and execution tags? This would make it easier for people to tackle issues in crates they're familiar with, and easier for people familiar with a given crate to review PRs in that crate since they already have the relevant context.

Describe the solution you'd like

Currently the only crate-specific tags are parquet/arrow/arrow-flight. Ideally this could be handled by a bot that checks which directories a PR touches.

Describe alternatives you've considered

keeping the current system.

Additional context

No response

[Rich-T-kid]

@alamb @Jefffrey

[Jefffrey]

i do wonder how useful this would be in practice 🤔

personally i ignore those tags in datafusion, especially as some PRs get overloaded with tags if they need to fix across multiple crates 😅

though i guess thats less likely to happen in arrow-rs

[alamb]

In theory this should already be happening

• https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/blob/main/.github/workflows/dev_pr/labeler.yml

[Jefffrey]

i guess its more about creating the missing labels and adding to the workflow then

[Rich-T-kid]

In theory this should already be happening

yes but I mean crate specefic tag names so we can search through the project a bit easier.

I personally think it could be useful. Here is the PR to implement it #10473 (review) but if there no other push for it we can close the issue.