Bugzilla Administration

Note: this page is for developers and other QA people that manage GnuCash bugs in bugzilla. People that simply wish to look up bugs, or report new bugs can have a look at the general Bugzilla page.

Bug overview

Bugzilla's browse mode provides a very handy startpage to analyse GnuCash' bugstatus. It has overviews of bugs grouped on Component, Version, Severity and many others and it allows to drill down in any of these overviews.

On Version

Bugzilla provides a "Version" field and a "Target milestone" field. Both allow you to set a GnuCash version to associate with the bug.

The "Version" field is being used for the version where the bug was spotted and reported. The "Target Milestone" shows the version when the solution will appear publicly.

If you close a bug, you shouldn't modify the "Version" field because it still contains information that we might not have in any of the other fields, as sometimes the bug might have disappeared in the current version already (which means we will probably close it as DUPLICATE or OBSOLETE).

For enhancement requests, this can be different: sually it is not necessary to know the reporter's version anymore. In that case it should be set to "SVN" as long as SVN doesn't have this feature. However, there might be exceptions to this rule, in which case we should leave the Version field to the reporter's version.