Bug triage

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Bug Triage

Bug Triage is a process related to Bugzilla's bug reports and means:

• close reports that are obviously about invalid, duplicate or won't fix bugs
• make sure the remaining reports are treated correctly

For bugs

• See to it they are dealt with in the correct order: seeming release blockers and high priority bugs first
• Ensure bug report completeness (ask for missing information, when needed)
• Improve the summary, if needed
• Change component if needed
• Fill out the RPM package field, when applicable
• For upstream bugs add the upstream bug report's URL to the URL field of our report, if applicable
• Set appropriate bug priority and severity
• Set blocks or depends on, when needed
• CC the appropriate person or team when you're not sure how to fully triage the bug and ask him/her to continue the triage
• When all is done, assign to the correct person or team to solve the bug

For package requests

• Set the summary to "package name", <short summary of what it's for>
• Make sure component is "New RPM package request"
• Fill out the RPM package field
• Set severity to "enhancement"
• Make sure the upstream link to the package is in the URL: field

For backport requests

• Set the component to "Backports"
• Fill out the RPM package field

Bug Squad

Bug triage is one of the main tasks of the Bug Squad

Learn more

Learn more about triage here:

• How to start triaging
• How to report a bug properly
• Bug policy
• Triage guide
• Debugging software crashes

Mailing list

Sign up for the Bugzilla bugs mailing list here

Don't be shocked to receive very many mails a day. Don't try to read them all.

Go to the Bug Squad Portal