April Issue Grooming - review, categorization, assignment

[egamma]

During April we want to get the bug count down. As a first step we will review the assigned issues. During the review pass please make sure to:

• close obsolete/fixed issues
• each issue needs a type label, that is one of: Bug, Feature-Request, Debt, Needs more Info, Question, Under-Discussion, upstream:
  • Bug - the implementation of a feature is not correct
  • Feature-Request - request to change the proper implementation of a feature or a request for a new feature that needs to be implemented.
  • Under Discussion - not decided whether the issue is a bug or feature
  • Debt - improve the implementation/architecture
  • Needs more info - not possible to assing a type label due to missing information
  • Question - we should direct questions to SO
  • upstream - an issue used to track an issue in an upstream component
  • Note: All type labels are grey (Bugs grey with a touch of red).
• assign the important label to issues that
  • result in data loss
  • a breakage of extension
  • critical security, performance issues
  • UI issue that makes a feature unusable
• each issue needs to be assigned to a feature area
• assign bugs that you plan to fix during April to the April milestone
• issues that the community can take up should be labeled as help-wanted
• feature requests that should be implemented as extensions should be labeled extensions-candidate and be closed

Finding issues with no Type label

Use the following filter an replace the assignee:

is:open is:issue -label:bug -label:feature-request -label:debt -label:under-discussion assignee:YOURNAME -label:question -label:upstream -label:plan-item -label:"needs more info"

Tracking:

Please make sure that you also do this grooming in our satellite repositories:

• @alexandrudima (done in vscode, not done in monaco-editor)
• @weinand
• @chrmarti
• @Tyriar
• @dbaeumer
• @bpasero
• @egamma
• @isidorn
• @joaomoreno
• @jrieken
• @kieferrm
• @aeschli
• @rebornix
• @ramya-rao-a
• @roblourens
• @sandy081
• @mjbvz
• @mousetraps
• @michelkaporin

[bpasero]

just a usability nit, I find labels without background a bit weird:

[aeschli]

Hard to tell which issues don't have a label yet.

[egamma]

OKi, changed the background to SlateGrey