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Note: this page refers to Launchpad 1.1.6, due for release 20 June 2007.

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Bug statuses in Launchpad

Anyone can set the status of a bug in Launchpad, making it easy for them to become involved in your project's bug triage.

Launchpad's Bug Tracker offers you seven main bug statuses that reflect each stage of a bug's lifecycle from initial report to resolution.

Optionally, if your project has a high number of bug reports, you may want to add an extra layer of quality control to your bug triage. Two additional bug statuses - Triaged and Won't Fix - are available only to members of your project's Bug Contact team and the project's owners.

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Available to everyone

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Only available to the Bug Contact

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Translating the status of external bug watches

Bugs in free software projects are often tracked in more than one place. For example: a bug in OpenOffice.org may be tracked in Launchpad by Ubuntu's OpenOffice.org team and in OpenOffice.org's own BugZilla instance.

Launchpad can track the status of the bug in OpenOffice.org's external tracker and display its current status on the Ubuntu team's bug report.

BugZilla and Launchpad use different statuses to describe the stages of a bug's lifecycle. It could quickly become confusing to use two different sets of bug statuses on the same page. Instead, Launchpad translates the status of the external bug report.

You can see how Launchpad translates BugZilla's statuses in this table:

BugZilla status

Launchpad status

UNCONFIRMED

New

NEW

Confirmed

ASSIGNED

In Progress

REOPENED

Confirmed

NEEDINFO

Incomplete

NEEDINFO_REPORTER

Incomplete

MODIFIED

Fix Committed

UPSTREAM

Confirmed

PENDINGUPLOAD

Fix Committed

RESOLVED FIXED

Fix Released

VERIFIED WONTFIX

Invalid *

CLOSED INVALID

Invalid

* We plan to change this in release 1.1.7 of Launchpad so that it maps to Won't Fix. For details, see [https://bugs.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/121348 bug 121348].

Some projects use custom Bugzilla status messages. Soon, we will add tables to show how those statuses are translated by Launchpad.