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issue labeling scheme

terhorstd edited this page Nov 28, 2016 · 8 revisions

Issue Labels

Each PR and Issue is labeled along five "dimensions", each with its own color family:

  • C: Component
  • I: Interface
  • P: Progress
  • S: Severity
  • T: Type

C: Component

C: Documentation Documentation

  • Documentation updates, fixes, ...

C: Infrastructure Infrastructure

  • changes in the build system or CI scripts

C: Installation Installation

C: Interpreter Interpreter

  • changes in the SLI iterpreter

C: Kernel Kernel

  • changes in the NEST kernel

C: Model Model

  • new or modified neuron or synapse models

C: PyNEST PyNEST

  • changes in the high level python interface of NEST

I: Interface

I: BehaviourChanges Behaviour changes

  • changes to the semantics of parameters or return values, while keeping the same API
  • changes in the effect of a method

I: External API External API

  • change that requires users of NEST to change their code accordingly

I: Internal API Internal API

  • change that modifies the calls to functions not usually handled by users
  • NEST developers need to be aware about the new structure/parameters/methods...

I: No breaking change No breaking change

  • no change to any API that would break existing code
  • anything that compiled before should still compile afterwards

I: User Interface User Interface

  • changes to the user interface

P: Progress

P: Blocked Blocked

P: In Progress In progress

P: Pending Pending

P: PR Created PR Created

P: Reminder Reminder

S: Severity

S: Critical Critical

  • Critical, bugs that need to be fixed asap.

S: High High

  • default priority for bugs, important enhancements

S: Low Low

  • default priority for everything but bugs, bugs that appear in very corner cases

T: Type

T: Bug Bug

T: Discussion Discussion

  • Ideas, Wishlist, everything that needs comments from the community or has to be condensed to a more concrete plan

T: External bug External bug

T: Maintenance Maintenance

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