Project Board

Overview

The MCP Hangar project uses a GitHub Projects v2 board for issue triage and lifecycle tracking.

Board URL: https://github.com/orgs/mcp-hangar/projects/<N> (set after first run of setup script).

Custom fields

Field	Type	Values
Priority	Single select	p0-critical, p1-high, p2-normal, p3-low
Scope	Single select	core, enterprise, cli, operator, helm, ui, observability, security, docs, deps, release, infra, tests, repo
Target Release	Text	Freeform, e.g. 1.1.0
Estimate (LOC)	Number	Rough size hint

Status flow

Triage -> Backlog -> Ready -> In Progress -> In Review -> Done
                                  \-> Blocked -/

• Triage: newly opened issues land here.
• Backlog: accepted but not yet scheduled.
• Ready: scheduled for current cycle.
• In Progress: actively being worked on.
• In Review: PR open, awaiting review.
• Blocked: waiting on external dependency.
• Done: merged or closed.

Built-in Project workflows

Configure these in the Project UI (Settings > Workflows):

1. Item closed: set Status = Done.
2. Pull request merged: set Status = Done.

The .github/workflows/project-add.yml workflow handles auto-adding new issues and PRs. The built-in workflows above handle status transitions.

Token setup

The project-add.yml workflow requires a PROJECT_AUTOMATION_TOKEN secret and a PROJECT_NUMBER repository variable.

Option A: Extend the release-bot App (recommended)

1. Go to the mcp-hangar-release-bot GitHub App settings.
2. Add Organization > Projects: Read & write permission.
3. Generate an installation token and store it as PROJECT_AUTOMATION_TOKEN in repository secrets.

Option B: Fine-grained PAT

1. Create a fine-grained PAT scoped to the mcp-hangar org with project: write.
2. Store as PROJECT_AUTOMATION_TOKEN in repository secrets.

Do not use classic PATs scoped to a user account.

Setup script

bash scripts/setup-gh-project.sh
OWNER=mcp-hangar PROJECT_TITLE="MCP Hangar" bash scripts/setup-gh-project.sh

The script is idempotent. Re-runs are no-ops for existing fields. Status field options must be configured manually in the Project UI (the gh CLI does not support modifying built-in field options).

After the first run, set the PROJECT_NUMBER repository variable:

gh variable set PROJECT_NUMBER --body "<N>"