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| 4 | +--- |
| 5 | +title: Repository Labels |
| 6 | +--- |
| 7 | +description: To facilitate the community in finding ways to contribute that match their experiences and skillsets, we have developed a comprehensive system for labelling issues and PRs. This is an introduction to this standard labelling scheme. |
| 8 | +--- |
| 9 | +body: |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +Labels consist of three fields, viz. name, description and color. Label names |
| 12 | +should have a consistent format to aid both filtering within the github UI as |
| 13 | +well as scanning visually through the list. The following format is the most |
| 14 | +suited to this task (where `⎵` denotes a single space): |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +``` |
| 17 | +<emoji>⎵<category>:⎵<name> |
| 18 | +``` |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +Even label names with more than two words in the text should be separated by a |
| 21 | +single space `⎵`. |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +## List of labels |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +An issue has many different attributes: |
| 26 | +- Priority |
| 27 | +- Status |
| 28 | +- Goal |
| 29 | +- Aspect |
| 30 | +- Skill |
| 31 | +- Talk |
| 32 | +- Friendliness |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +### *Priority |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | +<div class="table-container"> |
| 37 | + <table class="table is-bordered" style="table-layout: fixed;"> |
| 38 | + <thead> |
| 39 | + <tr> |
| 40 | + <td colspan="5"><strong>Priority color chart</strong></td> |
| 41 | + </tr> |
| 42 | + </thead> |
| 43 | + <tbody> |
| 44 | + <tr> |
| 45 | + <td class="has-text-white" style="background-color: #b60205;">Unfavourable</td> |
| 46 | + <td class="has-text-black" style="background-color: #ff9f1c;">Negative</td> |
| 47 | + <td class="has-text-black" style="background-color: #ffcc00;">Neutral</td> |
| 48 | + <td class="has-text-black" style="background-color: #cfda2c;">Positive</td> |
| 49 | + <td class="has-text-white" style="background-color: #008672;">Favourable</td> |
| 50 | + </tr> |
| 51 | + <tr> |
| 52 | + <td class="has-text-white" style="background-color: #b60205;">#b60205</td> |
| 53 | + <td class="has-text-black" style="background-color: #ff9f1c;">#ff9f1c</td> |
| 54 | + <td class="has-text-black" style="background-color: #ffcc00;">#ffcc00</td> |
| 55 | + <td class="has-text-black" style="background-color: #cfda2c;">#cfda2c</td> |
| 56 | + <td class="has-text-white" style="background-color: #008672;">#008672</td> |
| 57 | + </tr> |
| 58 | + </tbody> |
| 59 | + </table> |
| 60 | +</div> |
| 61 | + |
| 62 | +The priority of an issue is based on its impact, derived from a combination of |
| 63 | +urgency and importance. This determines the importance of the issue when sprint |
| 64 | +planning or deciding which issues to tackle next. |
| 65 | + |
| 66 | +- <span class="gh-label has-text-white" style="background-color: #b60205;"> |
| 67 | + 🟥 priority: critical |
| 68 | + </span> |
| 69 | + - **Description:** Must be fixed ASAP |
| 70 | +- <span class="gh-label has-text-black" style="background-color: #ff9f1c;"> |
| 71 | + 🟧 priority: high |
| 72 | + </span> |
| 73 | + - **Description:** Stalls work on the project or its dependents |
| 74 | +- <span class="gh-label has-text-black" style="background-color: #ffcc00;"> |
| 75 | + 🟨 priority: medium |
| 76 | + </span> |
| 77 | + - **Description:** Not blocking but should be fixed soon |
| 78 | +- <span class="gh-label has-text-black" style="background-color: #cfda2c;"> |
| 79 | + 🟩 priority: low |
| 80 | + </span> |
| 81 | + - **Description:** Low priority and doesn't need to be rushed |
| 82 | + |
| 83 | +### *Status |
| 84 | + |
| 85 | +<div class="table-container"> |
| 86 | + <table class="table is-bordered" style="table-layout: fixed;"> |
| 87 | + <thead> |
| 88 | + <tr> |
| 89 | + <td colspan="5"><strong>Status color chart</strong></td> |
| 90 | + </tr> |
| 91 | + </thead> |
| 92 | + <tbody> |
| 93 | + <tr> |
| 94 | + <td class="has-text-black" style="background-color: #eeeeee;">Lighter</td> |
| 95 | + <td class="has-text-black" style="background-color: #cccccc;">Light</td> |
| 96 | + <td class="has-text-black" style="background-color: #999999;">Medium</td> |
| 97 | + <td class="has-text-white" style="background-color: #666666;">Dark</td> |
| 98 | + <td class="has-text-white" style="background-color: #333333;">Darker</td> |
| 99 | + </tr> |
| 100 | + <tr> |
| 101 | + <td class="has-text-black" style="background-color: #eeeeee;">#eeeeee</td> |
| 102 | + <td class="has-text-black" style="background-color: #cccccc;">#cccccc</td> |
| 103 | + <td class="has-text-black" style="background-color: #999999;">#999999</td> |
| 104 | + <td class="has-text-white" style="background-color: #666666;">#666666</td> |
| 105 | + <td class="has-text-white" style="background-color: #333333;">#333333</td> |
| 106 | + </tr> |
| 107 | + </tbody> |
| 108 | + </table> |
| 109 | +</div> |
| 110 | + |
| 111 | +The status of the issue determines whether it is ready for work or not. Issues |
| 112 | +may not be ready to be worked on for a number of reasons and the maintainers |
| 113 | +must keep updating the labels as the situation evolves. |
| 114 | + |
| 115 | +An issue, at the time of closing can have either the |
| 116 | +<span class="gh-label has-text-black" style="background-color: #cccccc;"> |
| 117 | + 🏁 status: ready for dev |
| 118 | +</span> |
| 119 | +or the |
| 120 | +<span class="gh-label has-text-black" style="background-color: #eeeeee;"> |
| 121 | + ⛔️ status: discarded |
| 122 | +</span> |
| 123 | +label based on whether it was closed with or without resolution, respectively. |
| 124 | + |
| 125 | +- <span class="gh-label has-text-black" style="background-color: #cccccc;"> |
| 126 | + 🏁 status: ready for dev |
| 127 | + </span> |
| 128 | + - **Description:** Ready for work |
| 129 | +- <span class="gh-label has-text-black" style="background-color: #999999;"> |
| 130 | + 🚧 status: blocked |
| 131 | + </span> |
| 132 | + - **Description:** Blocked & therefore, not ready for work |
| 133 | +- <span class="gh-label has-text-white" style="background-color: #666666;"> |
| 134 | + 🧹 status: ticket work required |
| 135 | + </span> |
| 136 | + - **Description:** Needs more details before it can be worked on |
| 137 | +- <span class="gh-label has-text-black" style="background-color: #eeeeee;"> |
| 138 | + ⛔️ status: discarded |
| 139 | + </span> |
| 140 | + - **Description:** Will not be worked on |
| 141 | +- <span class="gh-label has-text-white" style="background-color: #333333;"> |
| 142 | + 🚦 status: awaiting triage |
| 143 | + </span> |
| 144 | + - **Description:** Has not been triaged & therefore, not ready for work |
| 145 | + |
| 146 | +### *Goal |
| 147 | + |
| 148 | +The goal of an issue is the end-result achieved when the issue is resolved. This |
| 149 | +represents the impact of the issue on the scope of the software. |
| 150 | + |
| 151 | +- <span class="gh-label goal">⭐ goal: addition</span> |
| 152 | + - **Description:** Addition of new feature |
| 153 | +- <span class="gh-label goal">✨ goal: improvement</span> |
| 154 | + - **Description:** Improvement to an existing feature |
| 155 | +- <span class="gh-label goal">🛠 goal: fix</span> |
| 156 | + - **Description:** Bug fix |
| 157 | + |
| 158 | +### *Aspect |
| 159 | + |
| 160 | +The aspect of an issue is the side of the project that the issue deals with. A |
| 161 | +single codebase can have multiple aspects to it and knowing which ones will be |
| 162 | +touched helps contributors find relevant issues. |
| 163 | + |
| 164 | +- <span class="gh-label aspect">📄 aspect: text</span> |
| 165 | + - **Description:** Concerns the textual material in the repository |
| 166 | +- <span class="gh-label aspect">💻 aspect: code</span> |
| 167 | + - **Description:** Concerns the software code in the repository |
| 168 | +- <span class="gh-label aspect">🕹 aspect: interface</span> |
| 169 | + - **Description:** Concerns end-users' experience with the software |
| 170 | +- <span class="gh-label aspect">🤖 aspect: dx</span> |
| 171 | + - **Description:** Concerns developers' experience with the codebase |
| 172 | + |
| 173 | +### Skill |
| 174 | + |
| 175 | +The technical skills a person is required to possess to work on the issue. |
| 176 | +Skills are a special type of label that vary by repository. Issues may not have |
| 177 | +a skill tag if no special skills are required. |
| 178 | + |
| 179 | +- <span class="gh-label skill">💪 skill: <skill name></span> |
| 180 | + - **Description:** Requires proficiency in '<skill name>' |
| 181 | + |
| 182 | +### Talk |
| 183 | + |
| 184 | +Issues with interaction labels do not entail any work to be done on the |
| 185 | +repository. They are for Q&A, RFCs and any other form of discussions. While both |
| 186 | +of these may appear to be too similar, triage permissions are granted to |
| 187 | +collaborators who might not have the answers to questions but by labelling them |
| 188 | +as such, they might draw a faster response from an experienced contributor who |
| 189 | +does. _In the future this category might be rendered redundant by GitHub |
| 190 | +Discussions and will be removed._ |
| 191 | + |
| 192 | +- <span class="gh-label talk">❓ talk: question</span> |
| 193 | + - **Description:** Can be resolved with an answer |
| 194 | +- <span class="gh-label talk">💬 talk: discussion</span> |
| 195 | + - **Description:** Open for discussions and feedback |
| 196 | + |
| 197 | +### Friendliness |
| 198 | + |
| 199 | +The level of friendliness a particular issue is the valency of the issue |
| 200 | +towards contributions from the community. Some issues provide a great |
| 201 | +introduction while others require a little more familiarity with the codebase. |
| 202 | +_These issues do not have the category prefix as two of them are special labels |
| 203 | +recognized by GitHub. The special ones don't have emojis either._ |
| 204 | + |
| 205 | +- <span class="gh-label friendliness">good first issue</span> |
| 206 | + - **Description:** New-contributor friendly |
| 207 | +- <span class="gh-label friendliness">help wanted</span> |
| 208 | + - **Description:** Open to participation from the community |
| 209 | +- <span class="gh-label friendliness">🔒 staff only</span> |
| 210 | + - **Description:** Restricted to CC staff members |
| 211 | + |
| 212 | +### Miscellaneous |
| 213 | + |
| 214 | +- <span class="gh-label has-background-black has-text-white"> |
| 215 | + 🤯 ノಠ益ಠノ彡┻━┻ |
| 216 | + </span> |
| 217 | + - **Description:** Aaargh! |
| 218 | + |
| 219 | +## Usage rules |
| 220 | + |
| 221 | +In the above categories, some are marked with an `*` sign. Those are mandatory |
| 222 | +categories and every issue is required to have at least one label from those |
| 223 | +categories. |
| 224 | + |
| 225 | +Only issues labelled with |
| 226 | +<span class="gh-label has-text-white" style="background-color: #333333;"> |
| 227 | + 🚦 status: awaiting triage |
| 228 | +</span> |
| 229 | +are allowed to not have all mandatory labels (seeing as they have not been |
| 230 | +triaged yet). |
| 231 | + |
| 232 | +Categories not marked with an `*` are optional and it is upto the discretion of |
| 233 | +the maintainers to have apply labels from those categories to issues. |
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