@zygoloid, at your service.

Are you referring to (visible) stable labels or to the internal term labels?

@tkoeppe, this issue is dealing with (visible) stable section labels, only. So, the question is: Are you fine with hard-limiting (visible) stable section to match /[0-9a-z.]*/ ?

I'm not fully convinced byt the resulting restrictions, since this forces us to conflate mere compound words with the hierarchical use of dots, e.g. foo.bar, foo.bar.general (subsection) would have to contend with foo.bar.tender (sibling section).

Practically, though, a) this particular change is very small and I have no issue with the handful of labels touched here, and b) we (or at least Jens's script) already seem to be claiming that the existing use of hyphens is "bad", so it seems like we already made that decision. Also c) the existing use of stable labels is already full of historic ad-hoc ballast, so it may not be terribly useful to try and find any patterns in the labels anyway.

So consider this a non-enthusiastic approval.

This needs a rebase, though.

@tkoeppe, I guess you'll merge this, then.