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+'use strict';
+
+// Shared colour values
+const colors = {
+  aquasqueeze: 'DAE4DB',
+  black: '000000',
+  black20: 'ccc1b7',
+  candy: 'ff7faa',
+  claret: '990f3d',
+  crimson: 'cc0000',
+  jade: '00994d',
+  laurel: '729776',
+  lavender: 'd4c5f9',
+  lemon: 'ffec1a',
+  lemongrass: 'e9f4dc',
+  oatmeal: 'fef6d7',
+  oxford: '0f5499',
+  oxfordWhite50: '87aacc',
+  mandarinWhite40: 'ffcfad',
+  mandarinWhite60: 'ffb885',
+  mustard: 'fbca04',
+  mint: 'bfe5bf',
+  pink: 'ffb8c6',
+  sky: 'cce6ff',
+  slate: '262a33',
+  surf: 'B7CAB9',
+  teal: '0d7680',
+  velvet: '593380',
+  velvetPaper50: 'ac92b3',
+  wasabi: '96cc28'
+};
+
+// Create and export the labels
+module.exports = [
+  {
+    name: "status: good starter issue",
+    color: colors.mint,
+    description: "An issue that could be an on-ramp for a new contributor!",
+    aliases: [
+       "beginner-friendly",
+       "beginner",
+       "good-starter-issue",
+       "starter-issue",
+       "good first issue"
+    ]
+ },
+ {
+    name: "status: help wanted",
+    color: colors.mint,
+    description: "Seeking more eyes and hands.",
+    aliases: [
+       "help wanted"
+    ]
+ },
+ {
+    name: "status: wontfix",
+    color: colors.black20,
+    description: "Out of scope/alignment with the project, or issue is expected, intended behavior.",
+    aliases: [
+       "wontfix",
+       "wont-fix",
+       "invalid"
+    ]
+ },
+ {
+    name: "status: duplicate",
+    color: colors.black20,
+    aliases: [
+       "duplicate"
+    ]
+ },
+ {
+    name: "status: blocked",
+    color: colors.claret,
+    aliases: [
+       "blocked"
+    ]
+ },
+ {
+    name: "status: review needed",
+    color: colors.mustard,
+    description: "Changes need review."
+ },
+ {
+    name: "status: revision needed",
+    color: colors.pink,
+    description: "Waiting for response to changes requested."
+ },
+ {
+    name: "status: info needed",
+    color: colors.mustard,
+    description: "Further information is requested."
+ },
+ {
+    name: "status: oncall",
+    color: colors.velvet,
+    description: "Flagged for awareness from Honeycomb Telemetry Oncall"
+ },
+ {
+    name: "type: bug",
+    color: colors.crimson,
+    aliases: [
+       "bug"
+    ]
+ },
+ {
+    name: "type: discussion",
+    color: colors.lavender,
+    description: "Requests for comments, discussions about possible enhancements.",
+    aliases: [
+       "discussion"
+    ]
+ },
+ {
+    name: "type: documentation",
+    color: colors.oatmeal,
+    aliases: [
+       "documentation"
+    ]
+ },
+ {
+    name: "type: enhancement",
+    color: colors.sky,
+    aliases: [
+       "enhancement",
+       "feature"
+    ]
+ },
+ {
+    name: "type: maintenance",
+    color: colors.oatmeal,
+    description: "The necessary chores to keep the dust off.",
+    aliases: [
+       "chore",
+       "maintenance",
+       "refactor",
+       "testing",
+       "test"
+    ]
+ },
+ {
+    name: "type: dependencies",
+    color: colors.oatmeal,
+    aliases: [
+       "dependancies"
+    ]
+ },
+ {
+    name: "type: question",
+    color: colors.lavender,
+    description: "Questions about usage.",
+    aliases: [
+       "question"
+    ]
+ },
+ {
+    name: "type: security",
+    color: colors.crimson,
+    description: "Security issues/fixes."
+ },
+ {
+    name: "version: bump major",
+    color: colors.laurel,
+    description: "A PR that breaks backwards compatibility."
+ },
+ {
+    name: "version: bump minor",
+    color: colors.surf,
+    description: "A PR that adds behavior, but is backwards-compatible."
+ },
+ {
+    name: "version: bump patch",
+    color: colors.aquasqueeze,
+    description: "A PR with release-worthy changes and is backwards-compatible."
+ },
+ {
+    name: "version: no bump",
+    color: colors.oatmeal,
+    description: "A PR with maintenance or doc changes that aren't included in a release."
+ },
+ {
+    name: "breaking-change",
+    color: colors.crimson,
+    description: "Prefer 'version: bump major', but use this for breaking changes that don't bump major."
+ },
+ {
+    name: "merge at will",
+    color: colors.jade,
+    description: "Reviewer can merge the PR once reviewed."
+ },
+ {
+    name: "no-changelog",
+    color: colors.oatmeal,
+    description: "Omit this PR from changelog/release notes."
+ }
+];