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  • security
    GitLab.org
    Issues related to the security of GitLab or its dependencies. Please report vulnerabilities responsibly per https://about.gitlab.com/security/disclosure/
  • customer
    GitLab.org
    Issues that were reported by Enterprise Edition subscribers. This label should be accompanied by either the 'bug' or 'feature proposal' label
  • customer+
    GitLab.org
    Features and bugs reported by large enterprise customers. This label is in use by the product org, please post in #product Slack channel if you have questions.
  • regression
    GitLab.org
    Issues with this label are regressions from the previous non-patch release
  • typebug
    GitLab.org
    Issues that report undesirable or incorrect behavior. See https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/metrics/#work-type-classification
  • direction
    GitLab.org
    Issues for important features that are on our roadmap: https://about.gitlab.com/direction/
  • high priority
    GitLab.org / gitlab-runner
    Other important issues
  • Other labels

  • tw-style
    GitLab.org
    Related to style standards for documentation, UI text (per Pajamas Content guide), or the Release Post. Typically involving the Technical Writing Style Committee.
  • tw-testing
    GitLab.org
    Related to tools, process, standards for doc/UI/Release Post content testing, including linting. Also use more-specific labels like ~vale or ~markdownlint, if applicable. Typically involving the Technical Writing Test Automation Committee.
  • tw-weight1
    GitLab.org
    (optional) Technical Writing team member's effort, similar to fixing a single misspelling or adding a punctuation
  • tw-weight13
    GitLab.org
    (optional) Technical Writing team member's effort, similar to creating an entirely new page for a feature or process
  • tw-weight3
    GitLab.org
    (optional) Technical Writing team member's effort, similar to developing or revising a few sentences
  • tw-weight5
    GitLab.org
    (optional) Technical Writing team member's effort, similar to developing or revising a section of content
  • tw-weight8
    GitLab.org
    (optional) Technical Writing team member's effort, similar to revising a full page of provided content, or developing a half page
  • twdoing
    GitLab.org
    The Technical Writing team is actively working on this item. (In Progress)
  • twfinished
    GitLab.org
    The Technical Writing team has completed their work on this item.
  • twtriaged
    GitLab.org
    The Technical Writing effort for this has been identified, and no additional reminders are required from the bot.
  • typefeature
    GitLab.org
    Any issue/MR that contains work to support the implementation of a feature and/or results in an improvement in the user experience. Read more at https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/metrics/#work-type-classification
  • typeignore
    GitLab.org
    When using this type, the issue will be excluded from cross functional planning metrics. This is used for meta, planning, issues.
  • typemaintenance
    GitLab.org
    Upkeeping efforts and catch-up corrective improvements that are not Feature nor Bugs. Read more at https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/metrics/#work-type-classification
  • unit testing
    GitLab.org
    Issues related to unit testing of GitLab code
  • The label is for upgrade bugs which resulted in retroactively adding required upgrade stop to the Upgrade Path. Also applied to the relevant Root Cause Analysis issues for such upgrade bugs. https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/unplanned-upgrade-stop/
  • GitLab security releases. This label should only be added for (critical) security root/meta issues. Do not add this label to individual security issues and/or merge requests.
  • upgrade GO from 1.8
    GitLab.org / gitlab-runner
    Issues that need to be closed to finish the upgrade from 1.8
  • upgrades
    GitLab.org
    Related to upgrading GitLab software
  • upstream deps
    GitLab.org
    This label represent issues that requires fixes too be developed upstream in dependency projects