Categories and organization for repos

[Ratstail91]

Feature Description

It would be useful if gitea supported a way to tag/label/group repos for easier searching and management.

i.e. Last night, I realized I didn't have an easy way to group about a dozen repos together in my org, so I ended up making a new org to hold them. These repos could be considered a related "set", but I didn't have an easy way to search for them specifically, or filter them out when they aren't needed - making a separate org felt like a stopgap.

Neither github or gitea have this feature, so I'd figured I'd ask how hard it would be to implement. Thanks in advance!

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[a1012112796]

looks star lists is what you need #27179

[makar112233]

@Ratstail91 we've used "Locations" for it.
May be you can try the same scheme?

[Ratstail91]

looks star lists is what you need #27179

Not quite, that looks more like a way to organize bookmarks.

@Ratstail91 we've used "Locations" for it. May be you can try the same scheme?

I'm not sure what you mean by "location", @makar112233.

[makar112233]

@Ratstail91 we used this "locations" as an alternative for plugin "categories" in BitBucket.

[Ratstail91]

@makar112233 That's uhh... creative?

These location settings only apply to orgs, I want to organize and group the repos - the best way to do that is with an org, which just brings back the same issue.

This is definitely a feature that would be useful, that neither github or gitea seem to have. I think one or more tags on a repo would make domain cross-cutting issues easier to manage on a large scale, as well.

If I knew go, I'd crack open the codebase to see what would be needed. As it is, it's a blindspot for me, and I've got other priorities - but I'd love to see someone add this as a feature!

[ares1977]

I think topics is the closest thing to categories.

https://forum.gitea.com/t/group-repositories-into-categories/3074

Problem is you cannot filter specifically for them while searching.

[Ratstail91]

It looks like the "Manage Topics" option in each repo is useful for this - I set one repo to "gamedev" and I could search up "gamedev" to return that specific repo. It seems to be a tag-like system, but I'm not sure when this was added.

I'd say this request is fulfilled, though it might be useful to make it more prominent at some point.