Issue tracker

This document describes how the issue tracker is used by the TEAMMATES project.

Issue lifecycle

Given above is an illustration of the issue lifecycle. Colors indicate which roles are involved in which states/transitions.

Issue labels

This portion will only describe the purpose of each label group briefly. The full description of each individual label can be viewed under the labels page.

Grouped Labels

• Status (s.*): Classifies PRs based on status
  • No s.* label: PR is yet to be triaged
• Category (c.*): Classifies issues and PRs based on type of work done
• Priority (p.*): Classifies issues based on importance, as determined by the project maintainers
• Aspect (a-*): Classifies issues based on the aspect
  • No a-* label: no specific aspect tackled, usually the case for enhancements or new features

Standalone Labels

• enhancement: Indicates new feature requests that have been accepted
• good first issue: Indicates a good issue for first-time contributors
• help wanted: Issues that should be tackled by project contributors
• committers only: Issues that should only be tackled by committers