Gitea: Issues without a Milestone

[Obelix]

Currently we have 97 Issues without a Milestone listed on Gitea. The oldest one has been opened 4 years ago, but it seems to me that new Issues without a Milestone increased since the migration from Trac to Gitea.

Shall all Issues without a Milestone be backlogged? If yes, I'd proceed.

 

[Atrik]

Probably something to do per-case. Backlogging seems to be worse case to me. Maybe if the issue seems important we could add arbitrary milestones. Also I don't know if it's somewhat impolite but maybe assigning members that have skillset and bear interest in the area that the issue touches, could nudge some to pick up the issue.

[phosit]

I'd say "Must Have"s and "Release Blocker"s should have the next release as milestone. The others should be backlogged.

[hyperion]

Backlog milestone to my understanding is because on trac you couldn't have no milestone assigned. So no milestone and backlog are defacto the same. Personally I prefer no milestone to backlog, tho looks a bit awkward if there are only a few with no milestone. Anyway I treat them the same.

[Stan`]

No milestone in Trac was for deleted tickets.

[Obelix]

Thanks for your replies!

On 27/04/2026 at 3:17 PM, Stan` said:

No milestone in Trac was for deleted tickets.

Every open Issue has a Milestone now, the ones formerly without one got backlogged.

On 26/04/2026 at 12:34 PM, phosit said:

I'd say "Must Have"s and "Release Blocker"s should have the next release as milestone. The others should be backlogged.

In the next step, all Issues with Milestone "Backlog" and the priority label "1: Release Blocker" have been set to Milestone "Release 29". Right now, I have set all backlogged Issues that have the priority label "2: Must have" to Milestone "Release 29".

For me, this case is now closed.