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 | #8bd9e5 |
| area/security | ||
| area/ux | User experience | #ccbef7 |
Priority
Used to prioritize the issues.
| Label | Description | Color |
| priority/high | Requires immediate attention | #d93f0b |
| 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 | #68db1c |
| stage/in-test | Deployed to TEST environment |
Stage labels like in progress, backlog etc can be skipped in GitHub if you linked the issue to a project which has relevant columns matching these stages.
Kind
Used to categorize the issues.
| Label | Description | Color |
| kind/bug | #ee0701 | |
| kind/chore | Work is required w/ no deliverable to end user | |
| kind/comment | Comments created via utteranc.es | #893aff |
| kind/documentation | Improvements or additions to documentation | #5F6D58 |
| kind/duplicate | This issue already exists | |
| kind/feature | New feature that does not currently exist | #62fcbe |
| kind/enhancement | Requested enhancement of existing feature | #6550ba |
| kind/question | ||
| kind/testing |
If you are a colorful person 😉 , suggest me some colors for these labels in the comments 👇
