cannot add labels to errata

[pfps]

I was unable to add the required labels to my errata issue.

[pchampin]

That's a problem :-/
I believe that by creating issue templates, we can allow people to create issues with a given label,
but none of the errata pages listed as examples have this kind of configuration...

@iherman, is there a simpler way to do that?

[iherman]

Per the GitHub documentation, only persons with at least write access are in position to change/add labels.

There is an (unwritten…) assumption that the WG doing the maintenance has to review and accept (or not) an issue as an Erratum. Which makes sense; if this was done otherwise, malicious outsiders may pollute the automatic error report with rubbish.

A WG may be confident enough in its own community to set up error templates. The other possibility is that the WG gives 'write' access to people they know and trust, regardless of whether that person is officially a member of the WG or not. I'm more in favor of the latter than the former (and would be happy to give @pfps a write access).

[pchampin]

There is an (unwritten…) assumption that the WG doing the maintenance has to review and accept (or not) an issue as an Erratum.

That was my understanding, but I expected that ErratumRaised could be set by anyone submitting an issue, to hint the WG at looking to it and, if appropriate, promote it as an accepted Errata.

[pchampin]

I just added issue templates. @pfps can I ask you to create a dummy erratum using the new template, to see if that solves this issue? thanks

[pfps]

https://w3c.github.io/rdf-canon/errata/ says:

An issue is raised for a possible erratum. The label of the issue SHOULD be set to “ErratumRaised”. It is okay for an erratum to have several labels.

So either these instructions should be changed or something should be done to allow people to follow them.

[pfps]

... and one way that works is to add a template, as was just done.

The instructions should probably be fixed up a bit, still.