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Differences between revisions 2 and 4 (spanning 2 versions)

Bug statuses and what they mean:

Unread - no one's ever responded to this bug (bad)
Deferred - we've decided not to deal with this problem now
Chatting - we're discussing a solution
Need-eg - we need more information to progress
In-progress - a partial fix exists
Testing - a patch is merged, but poster has not confirmed it works, or it didn't reach the main repo yet
Done-cbb - (could be better or couldn't be bothered) not perfect, but we've done as much as we're going to do
Resolved - problem is fixed

Priorities and what they mean:

critical - data loss or security issue
urgent - bug that is blocking development
bug - bug that's not blocking development
feature - it's not a bug, it's a feature
wish - would be nice

Triage

Sort open issues by priority and activity - here is a triage and a unloved query.
Diagnose issues and add appropriate people to the nosy list
Merge duplicates by setting superseder in the more recent bug, copy its nosy list to the older bug, and add a pointer to the new issue in the old issue if it contains new info
Improve bug titles to be more informative
Add appropriate categories
Set appropriate priorities (eg degrade urgent issues with workarounds to bug)

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- * Sort open issues by priority and activity - here is a [http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue?@columns=title,id,activity,status,assignedto&@sort=status,activity&@group=priority&@filter=status,priority,status,priority&@pagesize=100&@startwith=0&status=-1,1,3,5&priority=1,2,3&@dispname=triage triage] and a [http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue?@columns=title,id,activity,priority,status&@sort=activity&@filter=status&@pagesize=100&@startwith=0&status=-1,1,2,3,4,5,6,7&@dispname=unloved unloved] query.
+ * Sort open issues by priority and activity - here is a [[http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue?@columns=title,id,activity,status,assignedto&@sort=status,activity&@group=priority&@filter=status,priority,status,priority&@pagesize=100&@startwith=0&status=-1,1,3,5&priority=1,2,3&@dispname=triage|triage]] and a [[http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue?@columns=title,id,activity,priority,status&@sort=activity&@filter=status&@pagesize=100&@startwith=0&status=-1,1,2,3,4,5,6,7&@dispname=unloved|unloved]] query.