FWIW, I suggested to implement this feature 
in https://github.com/sagemath/sage/issues/37254; I'm thankful to Aman Moon 
for implementing this feature and Sebastian Oehms for his help with it. 

Obviously a metric such as the number of lines of changes is only a 
one-dimensional way to express the complexity of a PR. 
When I suggested the feature, I explained the possible positive effects:
- A size label "tiny" could encourage quick reviews of trivial changes.
- A size label "huge" could help flag problematic PRs.
Personally I think that the size labels for "medium-sized" PRs do not add 
much and could be removed.

But I'll note that "developer experience" improvements like this one are 
really best developed exactly as it was done here: By deploying them early, 
the developer community can gain concrete experience with them -- and then 
suggest and implement refinements based on the experience. Harsh dismissals 
of the whole features, on the other hand, are not very helpful.

Matthias

On Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 2:46:17 PM UTC-7 Travis Scrimshaw wrote:

> I am *very* strongly opposed to these tags. Their cutoffs are arbitrary 
> nor they serve no useful purpose as far as I can tell. To this point, they 
> do not reflect the difficulty of a review; in fact, they are at best 
> counterproductive to finding reviewers because it might deter people from 
> reviewing "large" or "huge" changes as they can include lots of trivial 
> doctest changes. At best it is just additional clutter in all of the 
> information for PRs.
>
> From a community perspective, I feel such changes should have been brought 
> to the attention of sage-devel once the PR was at a positive review. 
> Specifically, *before* the PR was merged. Not everyone has time to read 
> every PR, and a small consensus of developers might not reflect the 
> development community at-large when making changes like this.
>
> Best,
> Travis
>
>
> On Tuesday, May 7, 2024 at 3:12:27 PM UTC+9 seb....@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Dear Sage developers,
>>
>> You may have noticed that since yesterday a new type of labels with the 
>> `v:` prefix has appeared on our PRs. These are automatically set to 
>> classify PRs based on their size. For more information, see #37262 
>> <https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/37262>.
>>
>> Sebastian
>>
>

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