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Should you remove a 'question' label once the question has been answered? #62

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Cleop opened this issue Mar 28, 2017 · 1 comment
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Cleop commented Mar 28, 2017

In instances like this one: research-resource/research_resource#99 (comment) ... where you ask a question and once it's answered there's no need for further discussion, should you remove the question label?

I remove the in-progress label once I've stopped working on something, it's a verb kind of label. However question is both a verb but also a bit like an adjective, it's saying, this issue is the variety where a question is getting asked and therefore by removing the question label perhaps you're making it less useful for people to search for in the future by category?

It's only relevant to search for in-progress issues whilst they're still in progress however are people still likely to search by question even once the question has been answered or is it more useful for the team to know that the question has been attended to (as the question tag has been removed once the question has been answered)?

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@Cleop the question label is really useful for finding questions later.
If the question has been answered it's still a question...
Also, there are instances where people update the answer to questions months later.
In the same way that we are going to have a help wanted "view" in Tudo see: dwyl/tudo#146 we will have a "FAQ" which will collate all questions across all repos so leaving the label on the issue will be useful. 👍

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