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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Add `state:needs triage` label to open GitHub issues of types Bug and Crash
+if they're missing area, priority, or frequency labels. Don't touch issues
+with an assignee or another `state:` label.
+
+Requires `requests` library and a GitHub access token with "Issues (write)"
+permission passed as an environment variable. Was used as a quick-and-dirty
+one-off-bulk-operation script to surface older untriaged issues in the `zed`
+repository. Leaving it here for reference only; there's no error handling or
+guardrails, you've been warned.
+"""
+
+import itertools
+import logging
+import os
+
+import requests
+
+
+logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+GITHUB_API_BASE_URL = "https://api.github.com"
+REPO_OWNER = "zed-industries"
+REPO_NAME = "zed"
+GITHUB_TOKEN = os.getenv("GITHUB_TOKEN")
+HEADERS = {
+    "Authorization": f"token {GITHUB_TOKEN}",
+    "Accept": "application/vnd.github+json"
+}
+REQUIRED_LABELS_PREFIXES = ["area:", "priority:", "frequency:"]
+NEEDS_TRIAGE_LABEL = "state:needs triage"
+
+
+def get_open_issues(repo, issue_type):
+    """Get open issues of certain type(s) via GitHub's REST API."""
+    issues = []
+    issues_url = f"{GITHUB_API_BASE_URL}/repos/{REPO_OWNER}/{repo}/issues"
+
+    log.info("Start fetching open issues from the GitHub API.")
+    params = {
+        "state": "open",
+        "type": issue_type,
+        "page": 1,
+        "per_page": 100, # worked fine despite the docs saying 30
+    }
+    while True:
+        response = requests.get(issues_url, headers=HEADERS, params=params)
+        response.raise_for_status()
+        issues.extend(response.json())
+        log.info(f"Fetched the next page, total issues so far: {len(issues)}.")
+
+        # is there a next page?
+        link_header = response.headers.get('Link', '')
+        if 'rel="next"' not in link_header:
+            break
+        params['page'] += 1
+
+    log.info("Done fetching issues.")
+    return issues
+
+
+def is_untriaged(issue):
+    issue_labels = [label['name'] for label in issue['labels']]
+    # don't want to overwrite existing state labels
+    no_state_label = not any(label.startswith('state:') for label in issue_labels)
+    # we want at least one label for each of the required prefixes
+    has_all_required_labels = all(
+        any(label.startswith(prefix) for label in issue_labels)
+        for prefix in REQUIRED_LABELS_PREFIXES
+    )
+    # let's also assume if we managed to assign an issue it's triaged enough
+    no_assignee = not issue['assignee']
+    return no_state_label and no_assignee and not has_all_required_labels
+
+
+def label_issues(issues, label):
+    for issue in issues:
+        log.debug(f"Processing issue {issue['number']}.")
+        api_url_add_label = f"{GITHUB_API_BASE_URL}/repos/{REPO_OWNER}/{REPO_NAME}/issues/{issue['number']}/labels"
+        add_response = requests.post(
+            api_url_add_label, headers=HEADERS, json={"labels": [label]}
+        )
+        add_response.raise_for_status()
+        log.info(f"Added label '{label}' to issue {issue['title']}.")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    open_bugs = get_open_issues(REPO_NAME, "Bug")
+    open_crashes = get_open_issues(REPO_NAME, "Crash")
+    untriaged_issues = filter(
+        is_untriaged, itertools.chain(open_bugs, open_crashes))
+    label_issues(untriaged_issues, label=NEEDS_TRIAGE_LABEL)