Issue Management

Security Vulnerabilities

If you believe that there is a security vulnerability in PowerShell, first follow the vulnerability issue reporting policy before submitting an issue.

Long-living issue labels

Issue labels for PowerShell/PowerShell can be found here.

Issue and PR Labels

Issues are opened for many different reasons. We use the following labels for issue classifications:

Issue-Announcement: the issue is for discussing an Announcement
Issue-Bug: the issue is reporting a bug
Issue-Code Cleanup: the issue is for cleaning up the code with no impact on functionality
Issue-Discussion: the issue may not have a clear classification yet. The issue may generate an RFC or may be reclassified as a bug or enhancement.
Issue-Enhancement: the issue is more of a feature request than a bug.
Issue-Meta: an issue used to track multiple issues.
Issue-Question: ideally support can be provided via other mechanisms, but sometimes folks do open an issue to get a question answered and we will use this label for such issues.

When an issue is resolved, the following labels are used to describe the resolution:

Resolution-Answered: the issue was an Issue-Question and was answered.
Resolution-By Design: the issue is not considered a bug, the behavior is working as designed.
Resolution-Duplicate: the issue is a duplicate - there must be a comment linking to another issue.
Resolution-External: the issue cannot be address by this repo. Should be addressed externally.
Resolution-Fixed: the issue has been fixed and should be referenced from a PR.
Resolution-Won't Fix: the issue may be considered a bug or enhancement but won't be fixed. If there is an inadequate explanation as to why the issue was closed, anyone should feel free to reopen the issue.

Feature areas

These labels describe what feature area of PowerShell that an issue affects. Those labels denoted by WG-* are owned by a Working Group (WG) defined here:

Area-Maintainers-Build: build issues
Area-Cmdlets-Core: cmdlets in the Microsoft.PowerShell.Core module
Area-Cmdlets-Utility: cmdlets in the Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility module
Area-Cmdlets-Management: cmdlets in the Microsoft.PowerShell.Management module
Area-Documentation: PowerShell repo documentation issues, general PowerShell doc issues go here
Area-DSC: DSC related issues
Area-PowerShellGet: PowerShellGet related issues
Area-SideBySide: side by side support
WG-DevEx-Portability: anything related to authoring cross-platform or cross-architecture modules, cmdlets, and scripts
WG-DevEx-SDK: anything related to hosting PowerShell as a runtime, PowerShell's APIs, PowerShell Standard, or the development of modules and cmdlets
WG-Engine: core PowerShell engine, interpreter, and runtime
WG-Engine-Performance: core PowerShell engine, interpreter, and runtime performance
WG-Engine-Providers: built-in PowerShell providers such as FileSystem, Certificates, Registry, etc. (or anything returned by Get-PSProvider)
WG-Interactive-Console: the console experience
WG-Interactive-Debugging: debugging PowerShell script
WG-Interactive-HelpSystem: anything related to the help infrastructure and formatting of help
WG-Interactive-IntelliSense: tab completion
WG-Interactive-PSReadline: PSReadline related issues
WG-Language: parser, language semantics
WG-Quality-Test: issues in a test or in test infrastructure
WG-Remoting: PSRP issues with any transport layer
WG-Security: security related areas such as JEA

Operating Systems

These are for issues that are specific to certain Operating Systems:

OS-Linux
OS-macOS
OS-Windows
OS-WSL: Windows Subsystem for Linux

Process Tags

The following labels are used on PRs:

Review - Needed : The PR is being reviewed. Please see Pull Request - Code Review
Review - Waiting on Author : The PR was reviewed by the team and requires changes or comments from the author before being accepted.
Review - Abandoned : The PR was not updated for a significant number of days (the exact number could vary over time). Maintainers should look into such PRs and re-evaluate them.
Review - Committee : The PR/Issue needs a review from powershell-committee

Miscellaneous labels

Blocked : An issue cannot be addressed due to external factors, but should not be closed because those external factors are temporary.
BVT/DRT : An issue affecting or exposed by tests that have not been open sourced.
Changelog Needed : The PR requires an addition to the changelog, and should be removed when it has been added.
Committee-Reviewed : The PR/Issue has been reviewed by the powershell-committee
Compliance : Issues with the compliance label are required to be fixed either in the long term or short term for Microsoft to continue to sign and release packages from the project as official Microsoft packages. The time frame in which it needs to be fixed should be identified in the issue.
Documentation Needed : The PR has changes that require a documentation change or new documentation added to PowerShell-Docs
First-Time-Issue : An issue that is identified as being easy and a good candidate for first time contributors
Hackathon or Hacktoberfest : An issue that would be a good candidate for hackathons such as Hacktoberfest or Hackillinois
Porting : An issue that affects a feature not yet ported to other platforms.
Up-for-Grabs : We've acknowledged the issue but have no immediate plans to address it. If you're looking for a way to contribute, these issues can be a good place to start.
Usability : This label is used to help us filter issues that might be higher priority because they more directly affect the usability of a particular feature or area.
Waiting - DotNetCore : An issue waiting on a fix/change in DotNetCore.

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