code-server/docs/triage.md

# Triage

## Filter

Triaging code-server issues is done with the following issue filter:

```
is:issue is:open no:project sort:created-asc -label:blocked -label:upstream -label:waiting-for-info -label:extension-request
```

This will show issues that:

1. Are open.
2. Have no assigned project.
3. Are not `blocked` or tagged for work by `upstream` (VS Code core team)
   - If an upstream issue is detrimental to the code-server experience we may fix it in
     our patch instead of waiting for the VS Code team to fix it.
   - Someone should periodically go through these issues to see if they can be unblocked
     though!
4. Are not in `waiting-for-info`.
5. Are not extension requests.

## Process

1. If an issue is a question/discussion it should be converted into a GitHub discussion.
2. Next, give the issue the appropriate labels and feel free to create new ones if
   necessary.
   - There are no hard and set rules for labels. We don't have many so look through and
     see how they've been used throughout the repository. They all also have descriptions.
3. If more information is required, please ask the submitter and tag as
   `waiting-for-info` and wait.
4. Finally, the issue should be moved into the
   [code-server](https://github.com/cdr/code-server/projects/1) project where we pick
   out issues to fix and track their progress.

We also use [milestones](https://github.com/cdr/code-server/milestones) to track what
issues are planned/or were closed for what release.