Summary

It's no easy feat to search and triage issues across repositories when you have many teams working towards a shared goal. Issue types will allow users to classify and manage different types of issues across repositories.

Intended Outcome

Some folks have tried to use labels in order to do this - however labels are tied to repositories and label syntax can drift across repos. This makes triaging issues across repos difficult.

We believe that by creating a shared language to standardize work items across repositories we'll unlock reporting and automation use-cases.

How will it work?

Users will be able to define issue types (ex. bug, feature request, spike) at the org level and apply this syntax to an issue in a repo.