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title: Improvements for Notary Project Planning

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# Improvements for Notary Project Planning

## Issue Lifecycle

See [Issue Lifecycle](https://github.com/notaryproject/.github/blob/3881cd38a6ab10d8f950a70f7f80e1a73b4bdb29/CONTRIBUTING.md#issue-lifecycle)

## Process of triage

- Maintainers (Repo or .github) are responsible to drive triage weekly, and share the results in slack channel. Futher discussion can be scheduled in community meeting if needed.

## Stale issues or PRs

Clean up [stable issues or PRs](https://github.com/notaryproject/.github/blob/3881cd38a6ab10d8f950a70f7f80e1a73b4bdb29/CONTRIBUTING.md#stale-issues-or-prs)

## Labels

Clean up [labels](https://github.com/notaryproject/.github/blob/3881cd38a6ab10d8f950a70f7f80e1a73b4bdb29/CONTRIBUTING.md#labels)

## Milestones

Use the following milestones:

- `future`: This milestone includes issues that are valuable but are not currently planned for release. We can consider the issues in the `future` milestone as our backlog. The issues in the future milestone will be reviewed on a regular basis to keep it up-to-date. For example，future milestone is reviewed at the beginning of a new release cycle.
- `<release version>`: This milestone includes issues that will be released. For example, `v1.1.0`, `v1.2.0`.

Deprecate the `discuss` milestone and use label `question` for issues or PRs that need further information or discussion.

