Categorize, label or organize GitHub pull requests?

Question

Is there a way to organize pull requests on GitHub? For a big project with lots of contributors and pull requests, it seems like it would be invaluable for admins to at least be able to label pull requests. I would think this would be possible somewhere on the site but I'm not seeing it. I do see Issue labels though.

Answer 1

There actually is a way to label pull requests but you have to do it from the issues view. Here's the steps:

1. Go to the issues screen
2. Check the box next to the pull request you want to label.
3. At the top of the issues list there is a "Label" button with a little down arrow on it. Click that button.
4. Select the label(s) you want to add to the pull request and then select update.

Not sure why they don't provide a way to label the pull requests the same as issues but this workaround gets the job done.

Update: 2/7/2014

GitHub now supports managing labels directly on pull requests. See their blog post for more information.