Refactoring, technological debt, etc.

Issues that propose improvements to existing features

Initiatives and goals across modules and releases. Epics are scoped, prioritized (among other initiatives) and doable. Epics are adviced to follow a Minimum Viable Change approach.

New features or capabilities to be added

Issue is an unintended break of previous working behavior

Security, privacy or safety issues

Needs an acceptable design solution to be identified

The issue needs more diagnosis to triage

Request For Comments and discussions from developers

Issue describes something that does not need to be changed

Issue is too generic or is not actionable

Issue belongs to non-GNOME software

Requested changes don't align with current technologies, designs or plans

Help is welcome to resolve the issue

Tasks that are good for new contributors

Human-perceptible delays in response time to user actions

Relates to accessibility and accessibility technologies

Relates to developer documentation