It is common for forum users to create subject lines like the following (real examples, give or take):
- [fun] What does your Fedora background look like?
- [Gnome Shell] white “Oh no!” screen after update F37
- Fedora 37 - Can’t have wifi properly working - Realtek 8821CE
- Fedora 37 - Can’t Start with Graphical Screen, but Works After Logging in
- Fedora 37 - After kernel 6.1.5/6.1.6 update, boot freezes
- Grub2 - how to remove a message?
- Flatpak : outdated freedesktop Platform version preventing flathub installs
- RFE: auto-convert pseudo-tags from subject line to real tags
It would be handy for something (Watched Words? The Automation Plugin? Something else?) to recognize these patterns at the beginning of a subject line[1]:
- a bracketed word or words (typically square brackets
[]but could be parens and might as well also handle braces) - a word or words followed by
-or:(or--or—or, why not,–)
and, when the words match an existing tag[2], and when conditions for using that tag are met, remove the pseudotag from the header and apply the tag instead.
This would also address Add tags by email — for cases where there’s a match, it’d just work. For cases where there isn’t, it’d be easy for mods/tl3+ to discern intention. (Which is also the case when the tag is used in an area where it doesn’t exist or isn’t allowed — for example, maybe I should add a “fun” tag to our Social category.)
