From 77e7f512c38183c70ea40a245da80b36bbd82f77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Job van der Voort <jobvandervoort@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 13:37:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] add the stewardship label to contributing.md

---
 CONTRIBUTING.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 8d1f3d3f9264..315cd1e598cf 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
         - [Issue weight](#issue-weight)
         - [Regression issues](#regression-issues)
         - [Technical debt](#technical-debt)
+        - [Stewardship][#stewardship]
     - [Merge requests](#merge-requests)
         - [Merge request guidelines](#merge-request-guidelines)
         - [Contribution acceptance criteria](#contribution-acceptance-criteria)
@@ -230,6 +231,21 @@ for a release by the appropriate person.
 Make sure to mention the merge request that the `technical debt` issue is
 associated with in the description of the issue.
 
+### Stewardship
+
+For issues related to the open source stewardship of GitLab,
+there is the ~"stewardship" label.
+
+This label is to be used for issues in which the stewardship of GitLab
+is a topic of discussion. For instance if GitLab Inc. is planning to remove
+features from GitLab CE to make exclusive in GitLab EE, related issues
+would be labelled with ~"stewardship".
+
+A recent example of this was the issue for
+[bringing the time tracking API to GitLab CE][time-tracking-issue].
+
+[time-tracking-issue]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/25517#note_20019084
+
 ## Merge requests
 
 We welcome merge requests with fixes and improvements to GitLab code, tests,
-- 
GitLab