From b3b78e8459db76903cb12095da43e4fa33ede7af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Elad Kalif <45845474+eladkal@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 17:49:29 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Further clarify triage process (#40536)

* Further clarify triage process

* update

* update

(cherry picked from commit 90a6d7f9ead21bebc750baf38817a8f1600b3d17)
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 ISSUE_TRIAGE_PROCESS.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ISSUE_TRIAGE_PROCESS.rst b/ISSUE_TRIAGE_PROCESS.rst
index e4217ae0c812d..a80c431afb52a 100644
--- a/ISSUE_TRIAGE_PROCESS.rst
+++ b/ISSUE_TRIAGE_PROCESS.rst
@@ -260,6 +260,23 @@ as long as the ``needs-triage`` label remains the triage team will keep an eye o
 if it needs to be accepted or closed/converted to Github Discussion.
 ``needs-triage`` label may also be applied manually by committers if they think a further action from the triage team is required.
 
+**area Label**
+
+``area:providers`` must be present for any provider issue. The ``provider:x`` is specifying the exact provider.
+We have ``provider:x`` for any provider that we own.
+``area:helm-chart`` must be for any helm chart issue.
+``area:core`` must be for any core issue. Additional labels like ``area:scheduler``, ``area:UI`` is specifying the exact
+core area relevant.
+
+This method allow us to quickly filter issues by the 3 major components of our code base: core, providers and helm-chart.
+
+**affected version Label**
+
+The ``affected_version:x`` will never be present with ``kind:feature`` as feature requests are not related to specific Airflow version.
+For bugs, The ``affected_version:x`` is expected to be used with core issues thus normally it appears with ``area:core`` label.
+When issue is reproducible on multiple Airflow versions we apply only the latest version with the label.
+This policy is best effort, we should try to have as little exceptions as possible.
+
 **Good First Issue**
 
 Issues which are relatively straight forward to solve, will be tagged with