CockroachDB's GitHub repo uses a system of GitHub labels to organize issues. The labels are organized into groups based on a capital letter prefix. The labels are grouped to enhance discoverability and help suggest a standard set of labels that issues should have.
All issues should have a C- label, at minimum.
The following is a complete list of the label groups. Each group itself might not be complete - for example, the code areas under the Area label category may change over time, and are not all represented in this proposal.
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