What is the life cycle of a bug report?
When a new bug is entered it begins life with a Status of either Unconfirmed for normal users or New for users with commit privileges. The bug is typically assigned to the component owner. The component owner will usually use a query of Status = Unconfirmed or New and Assigned to = me to browse what is essentially the component’s inbox. She or he will assign bug reports to developers. Email will be generated to the developer (this part is configurable). (Note that the act of reassigning a bug to somebody changes its status to New). The developer may change unconfirmed bugs to new. The assigned developer will “accept” the bug which will change its status to Assigned. After working on the bug the developer will mark the bug as Resolved and will select a resolution (Fixed, Invalid, Wontfix, Worksforme). Once a bug is resolved there are still a few states it can transition to. How you choose to use these states will be up to individual teams. In our example, when a test pass comes up a com
