This section lists the labels we use to help us track and manage issues and pull requests. Most labels are used across all Atom repositories, but some are specific to `atom/atom`.
[GitHub search](https://help.github.com/articles/searching-issues/) makes it easy to use labels for finding groups of issues or pull requests you're interested in. For example, you might be interested in [open issues across `atom/atom` and all Atom-owned packages which are labeled as bugs, but still need to be reliably reproduced](https://github.com/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+user%3Aatom+label%3Abug+label%3Aneeds-reproduction) or perhaps [open pull requests in `atom/atom` which haven't been reviewed yet](https://github.com/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+repo%3Aatom%2Fatom+comments%3A0). To help you find issues and pull requests, each label is listed with search links for finding open items with that label in `atom/atom` only and also across all Atom repositories. We encourage you to read about [other search filters](https://help.github.com/articles/searching-issues/) which will help you write more focused queries.
The labels are loosely grouped by their purpose, but it's not required that every issue have a label from every group or that an issue can't have more than one label from the same group.
Please open an issue on `atom/atom` if you have suggestions for new labels, and if you notice some labels are missing on some repositories, then please open an issue on that repository.
| `bug` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-bug] | [search][search-atom-org-label-bug] | Confirmed bugs or reports that are very likely to be bugs. |
| `question` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-question] | [search][search-atom-org-label-question] | Questions more than bug reports or feature requests (e.g. how do I do X). |
| `feedback` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-feedback] | [search][search-atom-org-label-feedback] | General feedback more than bug reports or feature requests. |
| `help-wanted` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-help-wanted] | [search][search-atom-org-label-help-wanted] | The Atom core team would appreciate help from the community in resolving these issues. |
| `beginner` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-beginner] | [search][search-atom-org-label-beginner] | Less complex issues which would be good first issues to work on for users who want to contribute to Atom. |
| `more-information-needed` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-more-information-needed] | [search][search-atom-org-label-more-information-needed] | More information needs to be collected about these problems or feature requests (e.g. steps to reproduce). |
| `needs-reproduction` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-needs-reproduction] | [search][search-atom-org-label-needs-reproduction] | Likely bugs, but haven't been reliably reproduced. |
| `blocked` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-blocked] | [search][search-atom-org-label-blocked] | Issues blocked on other issues. |
| `duplicate` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-duplicate] | [search][search-atom-org-label-duplicate] | Issues which are duplicates of other issues, i.e. they have been reported before. |
| `wontfix` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-wontfix] | [search][search-atom-org-label-wontfix] | The Atom core team has decided not to fix these issues for now, either because they're working as intended or for some other reason. |
| `invalid` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-invalid] | [search][search-atom-org-label-invalid] | Issues which are't valid (e.g. user errors). |
| `package-idea` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-package-idea] | [search][search-atom-org-label-package-idea] | Feature request which might be good candidates for new packages, instead of extending Atom or core Atom packages. |
| `wrong-repo` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-wrong-repo] | [search][search-atom-org-label-wrong-repo] | Issues reported on the wrong repository (e.g. a bug related to the [Settings View package](https://github.com/atom/settings-view) was reported on [Atom core](https://github.com/atom/atom)). |
| `windows` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-windows] | [search][search-atom-org-label-windows] | Related to Atom running on Windows. |
| `linux` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-linux] | [search][search-atom-org-label-linux] | Related to Atom running on Linux. |
| `mac` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-mac] | [search][search-atom-org-label-mac] | Related to Atom running on OSX. |
| `documentation` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-documentation] | [search][search-atom-org-label-documentation] | Related to any type of documentation (e.g. [API documentation](https://atom.io/docs/api/latest/Atom) and the [flight manual](https://atom.io/docs/latest/)). |
| `performance` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-performance] | [search][search-atom-org-label-performance] | Related to performance. |
| `security` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-security] | [search][search-atom-org-label-security] | Related to security. |
| `ui` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-ui] | [search][search-atom-org-label-ui] | Related to visual design. |
| `api` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-api] | [search][search-atom-org-label-api] | Related to Atom's public APIs. |
| `uncaught-exception` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-uncaught-exception] | [search][search-atom-org-label-uncaught-exception] | Issues about uncaught exceptions, normally created from the [Notifications package](https://github.com/atom/notifications). |
| `crash` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-crash] | [search][search-atom-org-label-crash] | Reports of Atom completely crashing. |
| `auto-indent` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-auto-indent] | [search][search-atom-org-label-auto-indent] | Related to auto-indenting text. |
| `encoding` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-encoding] | [search][search-atom-org-label-encoding] | Related to character encoding. |
| `network` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-network] | [search][search-atom-org-label-network] | Related to network problems or working with remote files (e.g. on network drives). |
| `git` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-git] | [search][search-atom-org-label-git] | Related to Git functionality (e.g. problems with gitignore files or with showing the correct file status). |
| `editor-rendering` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-editor-rendering] | [search][search-atom-org-label-editor-rendering] | Related to language-independent aspects of rendering text (e.g. scrolling, soft wrap, and font rendering). |
| `build-error` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-build-error] | [search][search-atom-org-label-build-error] | Related to problems with building Atom from source. |
| `error-from-pathwatcher` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-error-from-pathwatcher] | [search][search-atom-org-label-error-from-pathwatcher] | Related to errors thrown by the [pathwatcher library](https://github.com/atom/node-pathwatcher). |
| `error-from-save` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-error-from-save] | [search][search-atom-org-label-error-from-save] | Related to errors thrown when saving files. |
| `error-from-open` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-error-from-open] | [search][search-atom-org-label-error-from-open] | Related to errors thrown when opening files. |
| `installer` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-installer] | [search][search-atom-org-label-installer] | Related to the Atom installers for different OSes. |
| `auto-updater` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-auto-updater] | [search][search-atom-org-label-auto-updater] | Related to the auto-updater for different OSes. |
| `deprecation-help` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-deprecation-help] | [search][search-atom-org-label-deprecation-help] | Issues for helping package authors remove usage of deprecated APIs in packages. |
| `electron` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-electron] | [search][search-atom-org-label-electron] | Issues that require changes to [Electron](https://electron.aton.io) to fix or implement. |
| `in-progress` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-in-progress] | [search][search-atom-org-label-in-progress] | Tasks which the Atom core team is working on currently. |
| `on-deck` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-on-deck] | [search][search-atom-org-label-on-deck] | Tasks which the Atom core team plans to work on next. |
| `shipping` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-shipping] | [search][search-atom-org-label-shipping] | Tasks which the Atom core team completed and will be released in one of the next releases. |
| `post-1.0-roadmap` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-post-1.0-roadmap] | [search][search-atom-org-label-post-1.0-roadmap] | The Atom core team's roadmap post version 1.0.0. |
| `atom` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-atom] | [search][search-atom-org-label-atom] | Topics discussed for prioritization at the next meeting of Atom core team members. |
| `work-in-progress` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-work-in-progress] | [search][search-atom-org-label-work-in-progress] | Pull requests which are still being worked on, more changes will follow. |
| `needs-review` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-needs-review] | [search][search-atom-org-label-needs-review] | Pull requests which need code review, and approval from maintainers or Atom core team. |
| `under-review` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-under-review] | [search][search-atom-org-label-under-review] | Pull requests being reviewed by maintainers or Atom core team. |
| `requires-changes` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-requires-changes] | [search][search-atom-org-label-requires-changes] | Pull requests which need to be updated based on review comments and then reviewed again. |
| `needs-testing` | [search][search-atom-repo-label-needs-testing] | [search][search-atom-org-label-needs-testing] | Pull requests which need manual testing. |