PowerShell/docs/maintainers/issue-management.md
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Issue Management

Long-living issue labels

Feature areas

These labels describe what feature area of PowerShell that an issue addresses.

  • Area-Build: build issues
  • Area-Cmdlets: cmdlets in any module
  • Area-Console: the console experience
  • Area-Debugging: debugging PowerShell script
  • Area-Documentation: PowerShell repo documentation issues, general PowerShell doc issues go here
  • Area-Engine: core PowerShell engine, interpreter, runtime
  • Area-Intellisense: tab completion
  • Area-Language: parser, language semantics
  • Area-OMI: omi
  • Area-PackageManagement: PackageManagement related issues
  • Area-Performance: a performance issue
  • Area-Portability: anything affecting script portability
  • Area-PSReadline: PSReadLine
  • Area-SideBySide: Side by side support
  • Area-Test: tests or test infrastructure

Operating systems

These are for issues that are specific to certain operating systems:

  • OS-Linux
  • OS-OS X
  • OS-Windows

Process Tags

Issues can be in one of the following states:

  • 0 - Backlog : We've acknowledged the issue but have no immediate plans to address it.

  • 1 - Planning : The issue requires some design or discussion before coding can begin.

  • 2 - Ready : Any design or discussion is essentially done, coding has not yet begun though.

  • 3 - Working : The assignee(s) are actively working on the issue.

  • 4 - In Review : The issue is being reviewed. The assignee(s) are responsible for signing off before the PR will be merged.

  • help wanted : We are looking for someone to work on this issue.

  • need review : This pull request is being reviewed. Please see Pull Request - Code Review

  • waiting for author: The issue or pull request needs

  • add to changelog: The PR requires an addition to the changelog. Should be removed when it has been added.