3rd party identifiers: e.g. email, phone number

A-Account-Deactivation

"Deleting"/"Removing" a user, GDPR erasure (erased)

A-Application-Service

Related to AS support

Running on an ARM64 CPU, including Apple's M1 and M2

A-Background-Updates

Filling in database columns, making the database eventually up-to-date

Issues related to CI on the Synapse repository

Configuration, or the documentation thereof

A-Context-Endpoint

/context client API endpoint

Things that have led to unexpected state in Synapse or the database

Directed acyclic graph of events (events connected by prev_events)

DB stuff like queries, migrations, new/remove columns, indexes, unexpected entries in the db

A-Device-List-Tracking

Telling clients about other devices. Often related to E2EE.

things which fill up the disk

Issues around DM rooms

Docker images, or making it easier to run Synapse in a container.

things relating to the documentation

End-to-end encryption for Matrix clients

Email notifications

A-Event-Endpoint

Fetch a single event, /_matrix/client/r0/rooms/{roomId}/event/{eventId} (`RoomEventServlet`)

A-Federated-Join

joins over federation generally suck

A-Internationalisation

Improves Synapse for international users. May include improvements for Unicode or non-English langs.

Inviting users to rooms and accepting invites

Joining a room (there is another label for federated joins)

Issues relating to `lazy_load_members` in `/sync`

Synapse's logs (structured or otherwise). Not metrics.

Issues related to enforcing usage limits according to the number of monthly active users.

A-Media-Repository

Uploading, downloading images and video, thumbnailing

A-Message-Retention-Policies

Issues related to Synapse's support of MSC1763 (message retention policies)

A-Message-Search

Searching messages

A-Messages-Endpoint

/messages client API endpoint (`RoomMessageListRestServlet`) (which also triggers /backfill)

metrics, measures, stuff we put in Prometheus

Tools for moderating HSes: event redaction, media removal, purge admin API, reports from users, ...

Module API: https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/modules/index.html

Our Debian packages, docker images; or issues relevant to downstream packagers

Performance, both client-facing and admin-facing

Script for exporting sqlite data into postgres

Displaynames, avatars

Issues related to push/notifications

Creating an account

A-Relations-Endpoint

Retention rules to delete messages after a certain amount of time

A-Room-Directory

A-Room-Upgrades

Related to textual search of something, be it rooms, users or messages.

Login via external identity providers

Hierarchical organization of rooms

A-Spec-Compliance

places where synapse does not conform to the spec

Database issues specific to SQLite

Single Sign-On (maybe OIDC)

A-State-Resolution

Incoming invitations that won't go away

defects related to /sync

Issues related to testing in complement, synapse, etc

Threaded messages

Issues related to generating server-side previews of remote URLs

A-User-Directory

A-User-Experience

500 (mostly) errors due to lack of event/parameter validation

Problems related to running Synapse in Worker Mode (or replication)

Pull requests from dependabot that update a dependency file

Pull requests that update Docker code

Pull requests that update GitHub Actions code

good first issue

Good for newcomers

Affects or can be seen by most users regularly or impacts most users' first experience

Affects or can be seen by some users regularly or most users rarely

Most users are unlikely to come across this or unexpected workflow

(OBSOLETE: use S- labels.) Approved backlog: not yet scheduled, will accept patches

(OBSOLETE: use S- labels.) Okay backlog: will not schedule, will accept patches

(OBSOLETE: use S- labels.) Dubious backlog: will not schedule, but may consider patches

Pull requests that update Python code

Pull requests that update Rust code

Blocks development, potential data loss, more than 25% of users possibly affected, no workarounds.

Major functionality / product severely impaired, no satisfactory workaround.

Blocks non-critical functionality, workarounds exist.

Minor significance, cosmetic issues, low or no impact to users.

Bugs, crashes, hangs, security vulnerabilities, or other reported issues.

New features, changes in functionality, improvements in performance, or user-facing enhancements.

Questions, user support, anything else.

Refactoring, removal, replacement, enabling or disabling functionality, other engineering tasks.

X-Awaiting-Changes

A contributed PR which needs changes and re-review before it can be merged

X-Cannot-Reproduce

Unable to reproduce the issue

X-Consult-Clients

Need to investigate if this change breaks clients

This issue is blocked awaiting information from the reporter

X-Needs-Sign-Off

Something broke which worked on a previous release

X-Release-Blocker

Must be resolved before making a release

Hacktoberfest spam

Z-AccountResurrection

Delight - Cycle 3 of Chronic issues

(Deprecated Label)

(Deprecated Label)

(Deprecated Label)

Things we want to get rid of, but aren't actively causing pain

z-cross-signing

(Deprecated Label)

z-cross-signing-sprint

(Deprecated Label)

Makes developers' lives better, but doesn't have direct user impact

(Deprecated Label)

Tests that give intermittent failures

Z-Future-Maintenance

Things that can't yet be done, but will need cleaning up in a couple of months/releases

Z-GetYourUpdates

Delight - Cycle 2 of Chronic issues

We know exactly how to fix this issue, and would be grateful for any contribution

(Deprecated Label)

Z-MakeConnections

Delight - Cycle 4 of Chronic issues

(Deprecated Label)

z-outbound-federation-meltdown

(Deprecated Label) Synapse melting down by trying to talk to too many servers

(Deprecated Label)

(Deprecated Label)

(Deprecated Label)

(Deprecated Label)

z-privacy-sprint

(Deprecated Label)

The Professional Services team at Element plan to see this through.

(Deprecated Label)

Z-Read-After-Write

A lack of read-after-write consistency, usually due to cache invalidation races with workers

(Deprecated Label)

Issues tracking a Synapse release

concerns the Rust portions of Synapse

Issue was discovered by looking at Sentry reports on Matrix.org

This change is blocked on specification (e.g. an MSC).

Element employees should track their time spent on this issue/PR.

(Deprecated Label)

Z-Unimplemented-MSCs

MSCs which we would like to implement, but haven't

This issue requires a fix in an upstream dependency.

Causing the user to exclaim! These issues are high impact and low effort.

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