Implement auto-labeling of issues and PRs #8345
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Involving development tools, procedures, documentation, services, and so onContributions welcome!Describes new functionalityWant to contribute to Cirq, but don't know quantum computing? This issue is for you.Should be done in the next 6 monthsNeeds experience with Cirq developmentA consensus emerged that this bug report, feature request, or other action should be worked on
Is your feature request related to a use case or problem? Please explain
We try to tag issues and PRs with tags such as area/gates or area/performance to improve findability, but we currently do tagging manually on an ad hoc basis. There exist numerous GitHub Actions workflows for automatically labeling things based on such things as the paths to files they involve. We should put in place a workflow with a configurable list of labels and rules (kept separate from the workflow) so that we don’t have to spend time doing it and so that labeling is done more consistently.
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How urgent is this for you? Is it blocking important work?
P3 – I'm not really blocked by it; it's an idea I'm proposing based on principle