Creating Tasks and Daily Reports
Creating Issues on GitLab
1. Once you’ve opened your project’s page on GitLab, click on the Issues section from the
navigation panel.
2. On the Issues page, click on “New Issue” button.
3. Complete the following fields
a. Title: Add a summary for the issue you are creating.
b. Description: This would include detailed description of the issue being created.
c. Assignee: From the drop-down choose your mentor’s name and assign the issue to
him/her.
d. Milestone: Select the appropriate milestone from the drop-down.
e. Labels: Select appropriate labels as per the issue type. For details, refer to the ‘Issue
Types’ section.
4. Click on “Submit Issue” button.
Issue Types:
Issues can be of 2 types: “Daily Report” and “Task”
1. Daily Report
For Daily Reports, write the Title in the form “Daily Report | dd/mm/yyyy”. For example:
‘Daily Report | 23/05/2019’
Issues for Daily Reports must contain these sections:
Accomplished Today: a summary of the tasks performed today
Problems Faced: list of problems (and their solution, if found) faced while completing
today’s tasks
Plan for Tomorrow: what you’re planning to do tomorrow
Self-Assessment: describe, in general, your experience today
Label Required: “Type: Daily Report”
2. Tasks
Labels Required: “Type: Task” and “Status: [status]”
The label “Status: [status]” should be changed one of the given labels. This label is changed
according to the following workflow:
When an issue is created initially
Once you’ve started working on the task (or
a revision)
[*] Once the work has been reviewed,
and some revisions are needed.
When you’ve completed the task
[*] The task has been completed.
The labels marked with [*] in the above workflow are to be used by mentors only.