How to add a custom set of issue Labels to Gitlab CE

If you’re using Gitlab CE internally in your company, and you’re making heavy use of its internal Issue tracking system:

1. you might be unhappy with the default set of labels available for you Issues and Boards.
2. you might want to create your own set of labels and apply the same set to several repositories, once you’ve standardized your internal workflow.

We were satisfying both conditions 1. and 2., so the valiant Fabio Savina, a member of our team at HCE.it, decided to create a custom NPM script to help us in our plight. You can find it here:

HCESrl/gitlab-standard-labels

It allows you to:

• Create default labels for your projects, based on our choices
• Create your own custom configuration with your own labels, colours, priorities etc. and use those
• Add some of those labels to the default board for the project

How to use it:

• install it on your machine with npm
• follow the instructions in the README.md file within the project

The code is not perfect and might not work with all versions of Gitlab CE, but at least that’s a start! If something isn’t working, or if you need a new feature, please file a bug report in Github Issues here.

The default list of labels we use are the following:

Default list of labels for Gitlab Issues

Thanks for your time, if there are any errors or if you have any suggestions let us know in the comments below!