Bugzilla Field Descriptions
- %Complete
- How close to 100% done this bug is, by comparing its Hours Worked to its Orig. Est..
- Alias
- A short, unique name assigned to a bug in order to assist with looking it up and referring to it in other places in Bugzilla.
- Assignee
- This is the person in charge of resolving the bug. Every time this field changes, the status changes to NEW to make it easy to see which new bugs have appeared on a person's list.
- Blocks
- This bug must be resolved before the bugs listed in this field can be resolved.
- Bug ID
- The numeric id of a bug, unique within this entire installation of Bugzilla.
- CC
- Users who may not have a direct role to play on this bug, but who are interested in its progress.
- Changed
- When this bug was last updated.
- Classification
- Bugs are categorised into Classifications, Products and Components. classifications is the top-level categorization.
- Comment
- Bugs have comments added to them by Bugzilla users. You can search for some text in those comments.
- Comment Tag
- FIXME
- Component
- Components are second-level categories; each belongs to a particular Product. Select a Product to narrow down this list.
- Creation date
- When the bug was filed.
- Deadline
- The date that this bug must be resolved by, entered in YYYY-MM-DD format.
- Depends on
- The bugs listed here must be resolved before this bug can be resolved.
- Hardware
- This is the hardware platform against which the bug was reported.
- Hours Left
- The number of hours of work left on this bug, calculated by subtracting the Hours Worked from the Orig. Est..
- Hours Worked
- The total amount of time spent on this bug so far.
- Importance
- The importance of a bug is described as the combination of its Priority and Severity.
- Keywords
- You can add keywords from a defined list to bugs, in order to easily identify and group them.
- Orig. Est.
- The amount of time that has been estimated it will take to resolve this bug.
- OS
- This is the operating system against which the bug was reported.=
- Priority
- This field describes the importance and order in which a bug should be fixed compared to other bugs. This field is utilized by the programmers/engineers to prioritize their work to be done where P1 is considered the highest and P5 is the lowest.
- Product
- Bugs are categorised into Products and Components. Select a Classification to narrow down this list.
- QA Contact
- The person responsible for confirming this bug if it is unconfirmed, and for verifying the fix once the bug has been resolved.
- Reporter
- The person who filed this bug.
- See Also
- This allows you to refer to bugs in other installations. You can enter a URL to a bug in the 'Add Bug URLs' field to note that that bug is related to this one. You can enter multiple URLs at once by separating them with a comma. You should normally use this field to refer to bugs in other installations. For bugs in this installation, it is better to use the Depends on and Blocks fields.
- Severity
- This field describes the impact of a bug.
blocker Blocks development and/or testing work critical crashes, loss of data, severe memory leak major major loss of function normal regular issue, some loss of functionality under specific circumstances minor minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is present trivial cosmetic problem like misspelled words or misaligned text enhancement Request for enhancement
- Summary
- The bug summary is a short sentence which succinctly describes what the bug is about.
- Target Milestone
- The Target Milestone field is used to define when the engineer the bug is assigned to expects to fix it.
- URL
- Bugs can have a URL associated with them - for example, a pointer to a web site where the problem is seen.
- Version
- The version field defines the version of the software the bug was found in.
- Votes
- Some bugs can be voted for, and you can limit your search to bugs with more than a certain number of votes.
- Whiteboard
- Each bug has a free-form single line text entry box for adding tags and status information