Aside from open/closed status (their "proper" statuses), labels aren't
hooked up to our own internal statuses right now.

On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Brian Teeman notifications@github.comwrote:

I had assumed that the issue status would be reflected on github as a
label - it doesnt look like changing the issue status on the tracker has
any effect on the issue at github

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I do not know GitHub API so well, but is it really possible to map our statuses to GitHub's labels?

Sure, on a save action the status is pushed up to GitHub as a label via the API (we already push labels in the CMS PR hooks). Where it gets hard is having to switch from the authenticated user to a bot account to add the label in case the authenticated user doesn't have permissions on GitHub to manage labels.

Nice, but this permission problem is annoying :(

Where it gets hard is having to switch from the authenticated user to a bot account to add the label

If we will solve it this will be a little victory for us. Need to dig in.

Closed via #389