GitHub/Attention: Support for GitHub "Issue Types"

[amotl]

About

GitHub provides a new "Issue Types" classification system for issues and pull requests orthogonal to labels. It includes a Type: Bug value.

Unlike labels, issue types are managed on an organization level and each issue can only have one type. By default, GitHub creates 3 issue types: "Feature", "Bug" and "Task".

Request

It will be nice to consider those items also relevant for the "GitHub/Bugs" feature.

Details

• Evolving GitHub Issues (Public Beta)
• Issue Types Public Preview (Opt In roll out)

Examples

• Slack: Special message formatting #15
• Possible memory leak crate/cratedb-prometheus-adapter#176
• Support Sphinx 8.x sphinx-design-elements#128

[amotl]

Update February, 2025

Currently there is no API support for this attribute yet.

• REST API: allow issue Type management

However, relevant items can already be discovered using SEARCH.

• https://github.com/tech-writing/rapporto/issues?q=type%3A%22Bug%22
• https://api.github.com/search/issues?q=org%3Atech-writing+type%3A%22Bug%22

[amotl]

Update March 18, 2025

The awaited feature arrived. Thanks and kudos to you and your teams, @rileybroughten.

• GitHub Issues & Projects: REST API support for issue types
• https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/140874#discussioncomment-12553743

@boronine: Thanks also for sharing your article and utility per Migrating to GitHub "Issue Types".