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Project management
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Ticket fields, types, and custom statuses
Learn how ticket types, parent-child epic hierarchies, custom statuses, and workflow transitions keep development organized.
Summary: Customize issue statuses per project, break complex features into subtasks, and organize work under parent epics.
Issue types
- Task: Standard engineering or operational work item.
- Bug: An unexpected defect or software regression.
- Story: A feature or requirement delivering user-facing value.
- Epic: A high-level initiative grouping multiple stories and tasks.
Epic hierarchies & subtasks
Break down large projects into manageable steps:
- Epics: Assign tickets to an Epic to track overall milestone completion.
- Subtasks: Add lightweight checklist subtasks inside an issue for granular tracking.
- Issue Links: Mark tickets as Blocks, Is Blocked By, or Relates To other tickets.
Customizing workflow statuses
Every project has an independent workflow. To edit statuses, navigate to Projects → Workflow. You can define custom steps like Design Review, QA Ready, or Staging Deploy and color-code them.
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