Labels

Issue Labels

The Eclipse Che project relies heavily on issue labels as a way to communicate status and responsibility.

Issues and pull request for new contributors

The following labels will appear in the https://github.com/eclipse/che/contribute page.

Label	Description
good first issue	Community, this issue looks easy to start with for a new contributor. Just take it. We'll help you!
help wanted	Community, our teams are fully engaged on other issues. Feel free to take this one. We'll help you!

Issue Types

Label	Description
kind/question	Questions that haven't been identified as being feature requests or bugs. Cannot overlap with "enhancement", "bug", "epic", "task" or "docs".
kind/enhancement	A feature request - must adhere to the feature request template. Cannot overlap with "question", "bug", "epic", "task" or "docs".
kind/epic	A long-lived, PM-driven feature request. Must include a checklist of items that must be completed, which can reference enhancements or bugs. Cannot overlap with "question", "enhancement", "bug", "task" or "docs".
kind/bug	Outline of a bug - must adhere to the bug report template. If a bug is identified during a question investigation a new issue can be created for the bug and the question closed. Cannot overlap with "question", "enhancement", "epic", "task" or "docs".
kind/task	Internal things, technical debt, and to-do tasks to be performed. Cannot overlap with "question", "enhancement", "bug", "epic" or "docs".
kind/docs	A work item tied to documentation. Cannot overlap with "question", "enhancement", "bug", "epic" or "task".
kind/planning	A checklist of issues that a team is planning for a particular sprint.
kind/usability	Issues related to the end-user experience.
Bug Severities	_________________________________________________________________________
severity/blocker	Causes system to crash and be non-recoverable or prevents Codenvy developers from working on Codenvy code. Must be resolved immediately. Can only be applied to kind/bugs.
severity/P1	Has a major impact to usage or development of the system. Issues / PRs with P1 status should be prioritized during sprint planning. Can be applied to all kinds of issues. Not all issues need a severity. If an enhancement or bug will take >1 sprint to address consider using the roadmap/* labels instead.
severity/P2	Has a minor but important impact to the usage or development of the system. Should be considered when planning sprints. Can be applied to all kinds of issues. Not all issues need a severity. If an enhancement or bug will take >1 sprint to address consider using the roadmap/* labels instead.
Issue Level	_________________________________________________________________________
level/beginner	A relatively easy issue that's well suited to being addressed by a pull request from the community.
level/intermediate	A more advanced issue that is open to a pull request from a community member with more experience in Che.
level/advanced	A challenging issue that is complicated and needs help from a community member with domain experience.
Dev Open Issue Status	_________________________________________________________________________
status/info-needed	More information is needed before the issue can move into the “analyzing” state for engineering. Cannot overlap with “analyzing”, “open-for-dev”, “in-progress”, “code-review”, “pending-merge” or “blocked”.
status/analyzing	An issue has been proposed and it is currently being analyzed for effort and implementation approach. Cannot overlap with “info-needed”, “open-for-dev”, “in-progress”, “code-review” or “pending-merge” or “blocked”.
status/open-for-dev	An issue has had its specification reviewed and confirmed. Waiting for an engineer to accept the issue and take it into active development. Cannot overlap with “info-needed”, “analyzing”, “in-progress”, “code-review, “pending-merge” or “blocked”.
status/in-progress	This issue has been taken by an engineer and is under active development. Cannot overlap with “info-needed”, “analyzing”, “open-for-dev”, “code-review”, “pending-merge” or “blocked”.
status/code-review	This issue has a pull request posted for it and is awaiting code review completion by the community. Cannot overlap with “info-needed”, “analyzing”, “open-for-dev”, “in-progress”, “pending-merge” or “blocked”.
status/pending-merge	This issue has completed development and awaiting authorization to be merged into master. Sometimes issues can be completed, but are placed on hold to merge in "info-needed", "analyzing", "open-for-dev", "in-progress", "code-review" or "blocked". Issues with a pending-merge label need to reference the PR(s) that are pending.
status/blocked	Issue that can’t be moved forward. Must include a comment on the reason for the blockage. If it’s blocked because it depends on another issue then it should include a link to the issue it depends on.Cannot overlap with “info-needed”, “analyzing”, “open-for-dev”, “in-progress”, “code-review” or “pending-merge”.
Dev Open Pull Request Status	_________________________________________________________________________
status/work-in-progress	This PR is not ready to be merged. There is additional testing, development or input required.
status/merge-ready	All reviews have been finalized. The PR can be merged into master if merges are being accepted according to sprint or milestone plan.
Roadmap labels	_________________________________________________________________________
roadmap/this-QTR	A large scale feature or bug fix that is scheduled to be addressed in the current quarter.
roadmap/next-QTR	A large scale feature or bug fix that is scheduled to be addressed in the next quarter.
Sprint labels	_________________________________________________________________________
sprint/current-sprint	Issue is being worked in the current sprint.
sprint/next-sprint	Issue is planned to be worked in the next sprint.
Team Assignments	_________________________________________________________________________
team/ide	Issue to be taken by the IDE team.
team/enterprise	Issue to be taken by the enterprise features team.
team/osio	Issue to be taken by the OpenShift.IO team (working on the integration of Che in OpenShift.IO).
team/plugin	Issue to be taken by the plugin development team.
team/production	Issue to be taken by the production readiness team.
team/platform	Issue to be taken by the platform team.
team/pm	Issue to be taken by the product management team.
Pull Request Target	_________________________________________________________________________
target/branch	Indicates that a PR will be merged into a branch other than master. When merging to master branch target/ label should not be used as it is an assume default target for most PRs.
target/che5	Indicates that a PR or an issue will be merged into che5.
target/che6	Indicates that a PR or an issue will be merged into che6 branch.