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# Backlog Analysis Toolkit
This directory contains a suite of AI-powered tools for analyzing GitHub issues
and determining implementation effort levels for the Gemini CLI project.
## 📁 Directory Structure
- `data/`: Contains the issue data in JSON and CSV formats.
- `bugs.json`: The primary source of truth for bug analysis.
- `utils/`: Auxiliary scripts for manual overrides, debugging, and post-analysis
validation (e.g., `validate_effort.py`, `inject_manual_fixes.py`).
- `*.py`: Core analysis and export scripts (e.g., `bug_analyzer_final.py`,
`generate_bugs_csv.py`).
- `run_pipeline.sh`: A shell script that orchestrates the entire effort analysis
pipeline end-to-end.
## 🚀 The Ideal Workflow
### Step 1: Categorize via GitHub CLI & Export to JSON
If you have a raw list of uncategorized issues, the first step is to apply the
correct types (`bug` or `feature`) directly on GitHub, and then fetch the data
into a local JSON file for analysis.
**A) Auto-Categorize on GitHub:** We provide a dedicated Python script that will
automatically fetch uncategorized issues matching your search URL, classify them
using the Gemini API, and apply the correct labels and title prefixes (`[Bug]`
or `[Feature]`) directly on GitHub.
```bash
python3 categorize_issues.py "https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/?q=-label:type/bug+-label:type/feature+is:open" --api-key "YOUR_KEY" --limit 50
```
**B) Export to JSON:** Once the issues are correctly labeled on GitHub, fetch
them into a local JSON file. You can simply copy a GitHub search URL from your
browser:
```bash
# Fetch bugs
python3 fetch_from_url.py "https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/?q=type%3ABug+is%3Aopen" --output data/bugs.json
# Fetch features
python3 fetch_from_url.py "https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/?q=type%3AFeature+is%3Aopen" --output data/issues.json
```
### Step 2: Analyze Effort Level
Run the full effort analysis pipeline. This will run a fast static pass, a deep
agentic codebase search, iterative recovery for complex cases, and heuristic
validation.
```bash
GEMINI_API_KEY="YOUR_KEY" ./run_pipeline.sh data/bugs.json ../../packages
```
### Step 3: Review and Update JSON
The pipeline automatically updates your JSON file in place with the technical
`analysis`, `effort_level`, and `reasoning`, and exports a `.csv` file.
If you need to perform additional bulk updates or custom processing on the
resulting JSON (like grouping by package or identifying related PRs), use the
Generic Processor:
```bash
python3 generic_processor.py \
--api-key "YOUR_KEY" \
--input data/bugs.json \
--output data/bugs_updated.json \
--project ../../packages \
--prompt "Analyze these issues and add a 'target_package' field to each JSON object based on the codebase analysis."
```
## 🧠 Effort Level Criteria
Ratings are based on technical complexity and reproduction difficulty:
- **Small (1 day):** Trivial logic changes, localized fixes (1-2 files), easy to
reproduce.
- **Medium (2-3 days):** Requires tracing across multiple components, UI state
management (React/Ink), or harder reproduction.
- **Large (3+ days):** Architectural issues, platform-specific (Windows, PTY,
Signals), performance bottlenecks, or core protocol changes.
_Note: Any bug that is difficult to reproduce or platform-specific must not be
rated as Small._
## 🛠 Usage Notes
- **API Key:** Ensure you have a valid Gemini API key set in the scripts.
- **Paths:** Scripts are configured to look for data in the `data/` subdirectory
and the codebase in `../../packages`.
- **Requirements:** Requires Python 3 and `jq` (for the shell script).