Fedora bugzilla usage guidelines, workflow, etc.

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 05:00:20PM +0300, Alexander Todorov wrote:
> Good afternoon all,
> I'm writing a sort of "Introduction to FOSS for newbies" with a bit 
> practical aspect.

If you're intending to cover interaction with upstream projects,
as well as Fedora interaction, then Richard Jones has already
written a useful document for patch submission

http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/how-to-supply-code-to-open-source-projects/

> I'd like to cover testing a bit more and wanted to know if there's
> something describing in details bugzilla terms of use, bug states, etc, etc.
> So far I was able to find:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugsAndFeatureRequests

There state workflow is described here:

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/BugStatusWorkFlow

> which links to many pages and seems useful at first glance. As it will take 
> me
> lots of time to go through all of it I'd rather ask if there are any 
> resources
> not linked from this page. i.e. I'm looking for a document that says:
> * if you're proposing new feature the start the summary line with [RFE] ...
> * if it's performance problem then [Performance] yum is slow

This might give other useful hints:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/StockBugzillaResponses

Daniel
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