# On github: add labels for plugins

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/on-github-add-labels-for-plugins/1106>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [February 12, 2020, 9:07am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/on-github-add-labels-for-plugins/1106 "2020-02-12T09:07:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![DjSlash](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/djslash/32/351_2.png) [@DjSlash](https://discourse.beets.io/u/DjSlash)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 9:07am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/on-github-add-labels-for-plugins/1106/1 "2020-02-12T09:07:13Z")

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Hi, shifting through issues on github made me realize that it is not easy to find issues that are related to specific plugins (i.e. duplicates). I would like to suggest to add labels for the plugins which are shipped.

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**Author:** ![adrian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/adrian/32/4_2.png) [@adrian](https://discourse.beets.io/u/adrian)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 1:39pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/on-github-add-labels-for-plugins/1106/2 "2020-02-12T13:39:59Z")

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Seems like a reasonable idea! Two brief thoughts:

- I have been enforcing a convention where plugin-specific issues get a prefix. So an issue might be titled “playlist: Support formats beyond m3u” to indicate that it’s for the playlist plugin, for instance. I wonder if it’s possible to search at the beginning of the title…
- One downside to the label approach is that there would be a _lot_ of labels. We have dozens of plugins now, so the popups on the GH issue page could get a tad unwieldy.

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**Author:** ![DjSlash](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/djslash/32/351_2.png) [@DjSlash](https://discourse.beets.io/u/DjSlash)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/on-github-add-labels-for-plugins/1106/3 "2020-02-12T15:06:23Z")

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- You can only search in the title, don’t think there’s a possibility to use regex(alike) syntax. And for whomever reading this: you can use `in:title` in your search.
- That’s true, but if you use labels like `plugin:duplicates`, etc, they are somewhat “grouped” and you can also put them in boards and stuff.