Hi everyone. As part of the work we are doing to reduce and organize the issue backlog we have thought about a potential split of the open issues into *buckets* and a proposed plan to work on these buckets. Overall there are currently 1,019 open issues <https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+org%3Akata-containers+sort%3Arepository+> . Out of these there are 106 open issues with attached PRs <https://github.com/issues?page=1&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+org%3Akata-containers+linked%3Apr+sort%3Arepository> and as Christophe suggested, these issues will be moved into an in-progress on the issue backlog board <https://github.com/orgs/kata-containers/projects/23> and will not be part of our backlog grooming work. Looking at the remaining issues we propose to split them as follows: - Issues opened this year (333 open issues <https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+org%3Akata-containers+created%3A%3E2020-01-01+>) and everything else (686 open issues <https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+org%3Akata-containers+created%3A%3C%3D2020-01-01+> ) - Another split of issues opened this year which are bugs (112 open issues <https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+org%3Akata-containers+created%3A%3E2020-01-01+label%3Abug+-linked%3Apr+sort%3Arepository+>) and not bugs (174 open issues <https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+org%3Akata-containers+created%3A%3E2020-01-01+-label%3Abug+-linked%3Apr+sort%3Arepository+> ) - For not bugs splitting to kata-2.0-features (45 open issues <https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+org%3Akata-containers+created%3A%3E2020-01-01+-label%3Abug+label%3Akata-2.0-features+-linked%3Apr+sort%3Arepository+>) and not (129 open issues <https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+org%3Akata-containers+created%3A%3E2020-01-01+-label%3Abug+-label%3Akata-2.0-features+-linked%3Apr+sort%3Arepository+> ) - Once we finish with this years issues we will move on to handle the previous year issues *Our proposed approach is as following:* - Every week we will focus as a community on one of the buckets and will also use the bi-monthly backlog review meetings to help focus - For each issue reviewed the reviewer should check if that issue can be closed (duplicate, not relevant, etc...) or is a valid issue - If you believe this is a valid issue remove the "needs-review" label to indicate the issue has been triaged (or ping James/me to to do it) - Later on once we have finished with reviewing the issue backlog we can then move on to decide on adding new labels (such as MVP) and removing/joining old labels *Propose timeframe:* - 2nd week of August - issues opened this year which are not bugs and are labeled kata-2.0-features (45 open issues <https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+org%3Akata-containers+created%3A%3E2020-01-01+-label%3Abug+label%3Akata-2.0-features+-linked%3Apr+sort%3Arepository+> ) - 3rd week of August - issues opened this year which are bugs (112 open issues <https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+org%3Akata-containers+created%3A%3E2020-01-01+label%3Abug+-linked%3Apr+sort%3Arepository+> ) - 4th week of August - issues opened this year which are not bugs and are not labeled kata-2.0-features (129 open issues <https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+org%3Akata-containers+created%3A%3E2020-01-01+-label%3Abug+-label%3Akata-2.0-features+-linked%3Apr+sort%3Arepository+> ) - 1st week of September - starting to work on issues from previous years depending on our progress Let us know if this plan makes sense, if you have comments or other suggestions. Thanks.