PowerShell-PowerShell/docs/dev-process/issue-label-descriptions.md

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Long-living issue labels

Feature areas

These labels describe what feature area of PowerShell that an issue addresses.

• Area-Build: build issues
• Area-Cmdlets: cmdlets in any module
• Area-Console: the console experience
• Area-Debugging: debugging PowerShell script
• Area-Documentation: PowerShell repo documentation issues, general PowerShell doc issues go here
• Area-Engine: core PowerShell engine, interpreter, runtime
• Area-Intellisense: tab completion
• Area-Language: parser, language semantics
• Area-OMI: omi
• Area-PackageManagement: PackageManagement related issues
• Area-Performance: a performance issue
• Area-Portability: anything affecting script portability
• Area-PSReadline: PSReadLine
• Area-SideBySide: Side by side support
• Area-Test: tests or test infrastructure

Operating systems

These are for issues that are specific to certain operating systems:

• OS-Linux
• OS-OS X
• OS-Windows

Process Tags

Issues can be in one of the following states:

• 0 - Backlog : We've acknowledged the issue but have no immediate plans to address it.

• 1 - Planning : The issue requires some design or discussion before coding can begin.

• 2 - Ready : Any design or discussion is essentially done, coding has not yet begun though.

• 3 - Working : The assignee(s) are actively working on the issue.

• 4 - In Review : The issue is being reviewed. The assignee(s) are responsible for signing off before the PR will be merged.

• help wanted : We are looking for someone to work on this issue.

• need review : This Pull Request is being reviewed. Please see Pull Request - Code Review