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

Answer 1

Note (April 2014): in the blog post "L is for Labels", GitHub announce the possibility to easily edit a label on existing issue with the l hotkey:

That would apply to pull request as well, in its conversation tab.

Answer 2

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.