KnowledgeBase
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Working with Bugs
[:Bugs/Improving:Improving A Report] - How to improve a bug report - an essential part of triaging
[:Bugs/Status:Managing Status] - When Ubuntu uses which bug status and what they mean to us
[:Bugs/Importance:Managing Importance] - The criteria for setting a bug's importance and definitions
[:Bugs/MarkingDuplicate:Marking A Duplicate] - How and when to mark a bug as a duplicate of another
[:DebuggingProcedures:Debugging Procedures] - Common procedures for debugging types of problems or packages
Bug Tools
[:Bugs/Responses:Standard Replies] - A collection of frequently used replies to bug reports setup for easy copy and pasting
[:Bugs/Tags:Bug Tags] - In Launchpad it is possible to add "tags" or keywords to a bug report - this is Ubuntu's standardized list
[https://help.launchpad.net/UsingMaloneEmail Modifying bugs via e-mail] - Malone, Ubuntu's bug tracker, has an e-mail interface for working with bugs
BugHelper - bughelper is a tool to help us triage bugs by parsing reports for clues about the type of bug and then sharing those clues with other triagers
[http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/graphs/ Ubuntu bug graph] - pretty pictures showing the quantity of bugs reported about Ubuntu
[http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/testing_graphs/plots/ raw graphs] - graphs without an html interface for viewing them yet
Launchpad Bug Queries
[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-datecreated&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=New&field.assignee=&field.owner=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch=&field.has_no_package=on New and No Package] - These bugs need triaging and a package
[https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=&orderby=-datecreated&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=New&field.importance%3Alist=Undecided&field.assignee=&field.bug_reporter=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch=&field.component%3Alist=1&field.component%3Alist=2&field.has_no_package= New Bugs] - These bugs have not been triaged at all