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authorVictor Wu <victor@gitlab.com>2018-02-26 15:54:52 +0000
committervictorwu <victor@gitlab.com>2018-03-05 06:28:58 -0500
commit95cb9b229f8486a38c6a2e47db8fcc24e06c4ecd (patch)
treec62a5ecb718462996c65771e40dfd594c54a6a45
parent91ab86e59c29f03ab91f58112d5cf7eda608905b (diff)
downloadgitlab-ce-priority-changes.tar.gz
Add severity labels to contributing.mdpriority-changes
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@@ -196,6 +196,17 @@ release. There are two levels of priority labels:
milestone. If these issues are not done in the current release, they will
strongly be considered for the next release.
+### Severity labels (~S1, ~S2, etc.)
+
+Severity labels help us clearly communicate the impact of a ~bug on users.
+
+| Label | Meaning | Example |
+|-------|------------------------------------------|---------|
+| ~S1 | Feature broken, no workaround | Unable to create an issue |
+| ~S2 | Feature broken, workaround unacceptable | Can push commits, but only via the command line |
+| ~S3 | Feature broken, workaround acceptable | Can create merge requests only from the Merge Requests page, not through the Issue |
+| ~S4 | Cosmetic issue | Label colors are incorrect / not being displayed |
+
### Label for community contributors (~"Accepting Merge Requests")
Issues that are beneficial to our users, 'nice to haves', that we currently do
@@ -397,9 +408,9 @@ For issues related to the open source stewardship of GitLab,
there is the ~"stewardship" label.
This label is to be used for issues in which the stewardship of GitLab
-is a topic of discussion. For instance if GitLab Inc. is planning to remove
-features from GitLab CE to make exclusive in GitLab EE, related issues
-would be labelled with ~"stewardship".
+is a topic of discussion. For instance if GitLab Inc. is planning to add
+features from GitLab EE to GitLab CE, related issues would be labelled with
+~"stewardship".
A recent example of this was the issue for
[bringing the time tracking API to GitLab CE][time-tracking-issue].