Project Management

All repositories in the praxis-proxy organization use a consistent workflow for planning, prioritizing, and tracking work.
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All repositories in the praxis-proxy organization use a consistent workflow for planning, prioritizing, and tracking work.

Triage

Every issue goes through triage before it becomes accepted work. New issues are automatically labeled triage/needs-triage when opened. Reviewers review incoming issues regularly (typically daily) to assess scope, validity, and priority.

To accept an issue, assign it to a milestone. Milestone assignment signals that the issue is understood, scoped, and planned for work. A GitHub Actions workflow automatically swaps the label to triage/accepted when a milestone is set. Removing an issue from its milestone reverts it to triage/needs-triage.

LabelMeaning
triage/needs-triageAwaiting reviewer review
triage/acceptedAssigned to a milestone; accepted for work

Bot-Generated Issues

A weekly bot opens issues on the repository to surface potential improvements, bugs, or maintenance tasks. These issues are labeled NEED HUMAN REVIEW and must not be worked on until a reviewer has reviewed them.

Rules

  • Do not self-assign a bot-generated issue before it has been reviewed.
  • Do not submit a PR for a bot-generated issue before it has been validated by a reviewer.

Review Process

A reviewer reviews the issue and applies one of the following labels:

LabelMeaning
NEED HUMAN REVIEWAwaiting reviewer review (applied automatically by the bot)
HUMAN REVIEWEDA reviewer has validated the issue

To approve an issue, replace the NEED HUMAN REVIEW label with HUMAN REVIEWED. The label history records who approved and when.

To reject an issue, remove the NEED HUMAN REVIEW label, leave a comment explaining why, and close the issue.

Once an issue is approved, it follows the normal triage workflow (milestone assignment, priority, sizing).

Milestones

Milestones represent a body of work toward a shared goal (e.g. a release, a feature area, or a hardening pass). Every issue and pull request should belong to a milestone. Milestones provide scope boundaries and help answer “what ships together?”

Priority

Every issue should have a priority set via the built-in Priority issue field (not labels). Address work in priority order:

PriorityDescription
UrgentMust be worked on immediately before anything else
HighNeeds to be worked on immediately, defer to urgents
MediumResolve after high and urgent
LowResolve after all other priority levels

Size

Every issue should have a size set via the built-in Size issue field. Size is a rough effort estimate:

SizeRough Estimate
Large1 week or more
MediumRoughly 3 days
SmallRoughly 1 day
TinyLess than a day

Project Boards

GitHub project boards visualize the state of work across milestones. Use boards to track issues through their lifecycle (backlog, in progress, in review, done). Boards are the primary tool for stand-ups and status checks.