Expanding top level issues categories for high-level issue organization

Issues in the GitLab CE tracker normally fall into one of 3 categories:

  • Feature Proposals
  • Bugs
  • Support Requests

Right now there are:

This leaves around half of the open issues. They must either be:

  • Uncategorised
  • Unlabelled/Untriaged

We should fix this

We need to categorise the other open issues that fall outside of these boundaries:

  • Maybe we can find further top-level categories for issues
    • (I know that ~enhancement issues sometimes fall between the cracks)
  • Maybe we can find a lot of issues that can be closed
    • Duplicates
    • Out of scope issues
    • Out of date issues

This sounds like an ideal job for a label suggestions system. This uncategorised subset of our issues could provide a good test bed for such a system. Those that cannot be categorised may be issues that require a new top-level category.

Edited by Mek Stittri