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Written by Oleksandr Gavenko (AKA gavenkoa), compiled at 2015-10-05 from rev 764bb173578d.

Software configuration management (SCM).

About.

Configuration management covers the processes used to control, coordinate, and track: code, requirements, documentation, problems, change requests, designs, tools/compilers/libraries/patches, changes made to them, and who makes the changes. (See the ‘Tools’ section for web resources with listings of configuration management tools.

Request/issue/bug tracker.

Each artifact can contain several attributes as:

  • Status.
  • Type.
  • Component.
  • Version.
  • Milestone.
  • Severity.
  • Priority.
  • Resolution.
  • ID.
  • Date.
  • Reposter, assigned, CC.

Status/State.

Open/Reopened/Closed.

Type.

Type is a kind of artifact - bug/issue or enhancement or suggestion or wanted, etc.

Component.

Component is a project module or a subsystem distinct by different criteria.

This can be - client/server, host/target, ui/doc/installer, etc.

Milestone.

Milestone is a data when issue should be resolved.

Severity.

How danger is bug or issue. For example it may be crash, corruption (of user data), or misspelling.

Possible values:

blocker critical major minor trivial

See:

http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities
Severity levels in Debian project.

Priority.

How important is to fix bug. What bugs are first to fix.

Possible values:

highest high normal low lowest

Resolution.

Reason for why a ticket was closed. One of fixed, invalid, wontfix, duplicate.