Labels are a good way to categorize the tasks. But having too many in an unorganized way results more clutter. Here is my way of labeling issues/tasks. This is the way I organize my tasks in GitHub, GitLab and in Jira.
Area
Indicating the area to which issues belong.
| Label | Description | Color |
|---|---|---|
| area: optimization | Fine tuning works | |
| area: documentation | ||
| area: security |
Priority
Used to prioritize the issues.
| Label | Description | Color |
|---|---|---|
| priority: high | Requires immediate attention | |
| priority: medium | Requires attention soon | |
| priority: low | Does not require immediate attention |
Stage
Indicating the current stage of the issue.
| Label | Description | Color |
|---|---|---|
| stage: investigating | Someone is looking into this | |
| stage: wontfix | Does not regard this as an issue or will not implement this feature | |
| stage: backlog | Prioritized to be picked up in current sprint | |
| stage: proposal | No work has been done of this issue | |
| stage: awaiting response | Potential fix was proposed; awaiting response | |
| stage: pending release | Works associated with this issue is done but not deployed | |
| stage: ready for work | The issue is reproducible and in scope | |
| stage: needs information | Not enough info to reproduce the issue | |
| stage: needs review | Work done but needs review | |
| stage: needs investigating | Someone needs to look at this | |
| stage: work in progress | Someone is working on it |
Type
Used to categorize the issues.
| Label | Description | Color |
|---|---|---|
| type: bug | #E54447 | |
| type: chore | Work is required w/ no deliverable to end user | |
| type: duplicate | This issue already exists | |
| type: feature | New feature that does not currently exist | |
| type: question | ||
| type: enhancement | Requested enhancement of existing feature | |
| type: breaking change | Requires a new major release version | |
| type: user experience | Improvements needed for UX |
Colors will be updated later. Let me know your thoughts on this.
