Jupyter/governance: document describing how we are using labels/milestones

[Brian Granger]

Hi all,

In the JupyterLab repo, we have been experimenting with a slightly
more formal and structured approach to using Github labels and
milestones. The flat nature of the GitHub label namespace makes it
difficult to manage large numbers of issues. We have come up with a
label taxonomy that is helping us mange issues in the JupyterLab repo.

Here is the document/PR describing this approach:

https://github.com/jupyter/governance/pull/29

Here is the JupyterLab repo's labels, milestones and issues links that
use this approach:

https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/issues
https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/labels
https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab/milestones

Right now I have written this to be descriptive rather than
prescriptive; IOW it is completely optional for other subprojects to
adopt. However, part of the motivation here is to see if we can come
up with an approach that more of our subprojects can use. This would
allow us to query our issues and PRs in a structured way across
repos/orgs.

Please provide feedback and comments here:

https://github.com/jupyter/governance/pull/29

Cheers,

Brian

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Brian E. Granger
Associate Professor of Physics and Data Science
Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo
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