Issue Management

Long-living issue labels

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Issues are opened for many different reasons. We use the following labels for issue classifications:

Issue-Bug: the issue is reporting a bug
Issue-Code Cleanup: the issue is for cleaning up the code with no impact on functionality
Issue-Discussion: the issue may not have a clear classification yet. The issue may generate an RFC or may be reclassified as a bug or enhancement.
Issue-Enhancement: the issue is more of a feature request than a bug.
Issue-Meta: an issue used to track multiple issues.
Issue-Question: ideally support can be provided via other mechanisms, but sometimes folks to open an issue to get a question answered and we will use this label for such issues.

When an issue is resolved, the following labels are used to describe the resolution:

Resolution-Answered: the issue was an Issue-Question and was answered.
Resolution-By Design: the issue is not considered a bug, the behavior is working as designed.
Resolution-Duplicate: the issue is a duplicate - there must be a comment linking to another issue.
Resolution-External: the issue cannot be address by this repo. Should be addressed externally.
Resolution-Fixed: the issue has been fixed and should be referenced from a PR.
Resolution-Won't Fix: the issue may be considered a bug or enhancement but won't be fixed. If there is an inadequate explanation as to why the issue was closed, anyone should feel free to reopen the issue.

These labels describe what feature area of PowerShell that an issue affects:

Area-Build: build issues
Area-Cmdlets-Core: cmdlets in the Microsoft.PowerShell.Core module
Area-Cmdlets-Utility: cmdlets in the Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility module
Area-Cmdlets-Management: cmdlets in the Microsoft.PowerShell.Management module
Area-Console: the console experience
Area-Debugging: debugging PowerShell script
Area-Demo: a demo or sample
Area-Documentation: PowerShell repo documentation issues, general PowerShell doc issues go here
Area-DSC: DSC related issues
Area-Engine: core PowerShell engine, interpreter, runtime
Area-HelpSystem: anything related to the help infrastructure and formatting of help
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-PowerShellGet: PowerShellGet related issues
Area-Providers: PowerShell providers like FileSystem, Certificates, Registry, etc...
Area-PSReadline: PSReadline related issues
Area-Remoting: PSRP issues with any transport layer
Area-Security: security related areas like JEA
Area-SideBySide: side by side support
Area-Test: issues in a test or in test infrastructure

These are for issues that are specific to certain Operating Systems:

The following labels are used on PRs:

Review - Needed : The PR is being reviewed. Please see Pull Request - Code Review
Review - Waiting on Author : The PR was reviewed by the team and requires changes or comments from the author before being accepted.
Review - Abandoned : The PR was not updated for significant number of days (the exact number could vary over time). Maintainers should look into such PRs and re-evaluate them.
Review - Committee : The PR/Issue needs a review from powershell-committee

Committee-Reviewed : The PR/Issue has been reviewed by the powershell-committee
Up-for-Grabs: We've acknowledged the issue but have no immediate plans to address it. If you're looking for a way to contribute, these issues can be a good place to start.
Blocked: an issue cannot be addressed due to external factors, but should not be closed because those external factors are temporary.
BVT/DRT: an issue affecting or exposed by tests that have not been open sourced.
Porting: an issue that affects a feature not yet ported to other platforms.
Usability: this label is used to help us filter issues that might be higher priority because they more directly affect the usability of a particular feature or area.
Changelog Needed: The PR requires an addition to the changelog, and should be removed when it has been added.
Documentation Needed : The PR has changes that require a documentation change or new documentation added to PowerShell-Docs
Compliance : Issues with the compliance label are required to be fixed either in the long term or short term for Microsoft to continue to sign and release packages from the project as official Microsoft packages. The time frame in which it needs to be fixed should be identified in the issue.