GitHub Search – Filter Issues Without Specific Tag

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Does the current GitHub issue search engine provide any way for users to search for reports without certain tag?

Classical use-case would be having a granular grouping such as [bug], [enhancement], [feature] etc. I'd like to search for all items without the [bug] tag.

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I'd be happy to be proven wrong and delete my answer... but I think at the moment the answer is no. Not even the API for github Issues seems to allow this.

For your example, I think your best bet is to search for all labels except [bug]; or create a new label "non-bug". :)

You can of course contact github and put this "filter-out" feature in their suggestion box.

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Sort GitHub issues by priority (or by labels)

You could define different groups of labels like issue types, issue priorities, issue statuses, version tags, and maybe more. In order to be able to see instantly to which group a label belongs to you could use a naming convention like :.

Using such a naming convention should make managing Github issues much easier and helps others to "understand" issues much faster. Note that you can also assign colors to labels which can add even more to readability (I would use a specific color for each label group). But because you still have to assign/unassign those labels to/from issues manually you might want to keep the overall list of groups/labels small.

According to the scheme suggested above you might define groups and corresponding labels as follows.

'issue type' group

type:bug type:feature type:idea type:invalid type:support type:task 'issue priority' group

prio:low prio:normal prio:high 'issue status' group

(These labels describe an issue's state in a defined workflow.)

status:confirmed status:deferred status:fix-committed status:in-progress status:incomplete status:rejected status:resolved 'issue information' group

info:feedback-needed info:help-needed info:progress-25 info:progress-50 info:progress-75 'version tag' group

ver:1.x ver:1.1

Export/Print list of GitHub repo issues

There is an Issues API. To get all issues from a repo, you can use cURL:

curl -i https://api.github.com/repos/username/reponame/issues

This returns a JSON encoded list of all issues. And …

curl -i https://api.github.com/repos/username/reponame/issues?status=open

… returns all open issues. Now you just have to convert the JSON to CSV and you are set.

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Sort GitHub issues by priority (or by labels)

Export/Print list of GitHub repo issues

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