Tags and Initiatives

#Needs merge request

#CSS

It involves the content or handling of Cascading Style Sheets.

#Needs reroll

The patch will have to be re-rolled with new suggestions/changes described in the comments in the issue.

#Needs issue summary update

Issue summaries save everyone time if they are kept up-to-date. See Update issue summary task instructions.

#Needs issue rescope

#Bug Smash Initiative

#frontend

#Paragraphs

#Novice

It would make a good project for someone who is new to the Drupal contribution process. It's preferred over Newbie.

#Drupal 9

#views pager

#install profile

#String change in 8.8.0

#Entity Field API

#API addition

Enhances an existing API or introduces a new subsystem. Depending on the size and impact, possibly backportable to earlier major versions.

#Usability

Makes Drupal easier to use. Preferred over UX, D7UX, etc.

#d8mux

#d8ux

#ux-hierarchy

#API clean-up

Refactors an existing API or subsystem for consistency, performance, modularization, flexibility, third-party integration, etc. May imply an API change. Frequently used during the Code Slush phase of the release cycle.

#DX (Developer Experience)

Enhances developer experience.

#Needs tests

The change is currently missing an automated test that fails when run with the original code, and succeeds when the bug has been fixed.

#Needs Review Queue Initiative

Used to track the progress of issues reviewed by the Drupal Needs Review Queue Initiative.

#PHP 8.1

The issue particularly affects sites running on PHP version 8.1.0 or later.

#Quick fix

Very small and simple change. Preferred over Quickfix.

#Performance

It affects performance. It is often combined with the Needs profiling tag.

#Composer

#dependencies

#link module title text field

##d8ux

#stale-issue-cleanup

To track issues in the developing policy for closing stale issues, [Policy, no patch] closing older issues

#Release blocker

#Create a design for a roll-up banner

#ckeditor 5

#Drupal 11 compatibility

#ProjectUpdateBotD11

#Unit tests

#UI Suite Initiative

#PHP 8.2

The issue particularly affects sites running on PHP version 8.2.0 or later.

#D10 compatibility

#Drupal CMS release target

#ChennaiSprintWeekend

#drupal.org documentation

#Security improvements

It makes Drupal less vulnerable to abuse or misuse. Note, this is the preferred tag, though the Security tag has a large body of issues tagged to it. Do NOT publicly disclose security vulnerabilities; contact the security team instead. Anyone (whether security team or not) can apply this tag to security improvements that do not directly present a vulnerability e.g. hardening an API to add filtering to reduce a common mistake in contributed modules.

#Needs design

#Drupal 8.x

#media

#taxonomy

#Drupal 9 compatibility

#simplesaml

#Project available for adoption

The project this was originally filed against was not compatible with recent versions of Drupal.

#Documentation

Primarily changes documentation, not code. For Drupal core issues, select the Documentation component instead of using this tag. In general, component selection is preferred over tag selection.

#Project Browser Initiative

#main

#Needs accessibility review

Used to alert the accessibility topic maintainer(s) that an issue significantly affects (or has the potential to affect) the accessibility of Drupal, and their signoff is needed (see the governance policy draft for more information). Useful links: Drupal's accessibility standards, the Drupal Core accessibility gate.

#Accessibility

It affects the ability of people with disabilities or special needs (such as blindness or color-blindness) to use Drupal.

#Needs change record

A change record needs to be drafted before an issue is committed. Note: Change records used to be called change notifications.

#Amsterdam2019

#wcag131

#Drupal CMS a11y

#search

#Random test failure

#New feature

#group

#PHPUnit 11

#Drupal 11

#webp

#bootstrap 5

#Needs steps to reproduce

#Paragraph Bundle Accordion

#stable blocker

#PHP 8.4

#throbber

#sprint

#Ajax

#style guide

#seven-theme

#JavaScript

Affects the content, performance, or handling of Javascript.

#redirect

#redirect search

#url redirect

#phpunit

#Coding standards

It involves compliance with, or the content of coding standards. Requires broad community agreement.

#Testing system

#beta blocker

#clean-up

#Plan

#next-release-planned

#proposal

#D8 cacheability

#D8MI

(Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative) is the tag used by the multilingual initiative to mark core issues (and some contributed module issues). For versions other than Drupal 8, use the i18n (Internationalization) tag on issues which involve or affect multilingual / multinational support. That is preferred over Translation.

#language-base

#alpha blocker

#co-maintainer

#ux

#count total all

#MidCamp 2025

#ckeditor5

#i18n sprint

#validation