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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 your project's [:Bugs/BugContactRole:bug contact], owners and drivers.

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Available to everyone

• New

• Incomplete: the bug report is incomplete and needs more information before it can be triaged.

• Invalid: the report describes the software's normal behaviour, or is unsuitable for any other reason.

• Confirmed: a member of the community believes that this report describes a genuine bug in enough detail that a developer could start work on a fix.

• In Progress: a developer has taken responsibility to fix the bug and has begun work.

• Fix Committed: a developer has committed his/her fix to the project's codebase.

• Fix Released: a new version of the software, featuring the bug fix, has been released.

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Only available to the bug supervisor

• Triaged: the bug supervisor considers that the bug report contains all information a developer needs to start work on a fix.

• Won't Fix: this is acknowledged as a genuine bug but the project has no plans to fix it.

Translating external bug statuses

When Launchpad watches a bug report in an external tracker - such as Bugzilla or Sourceforge - it translates that bug's status information into the equivalent Launchpad status.

See our [:Bugs/Statuses/External:page on external bug statuses].

Next steps

Launchpad helps you to stay on top of the bugs you're interested in, both by email and Atom feeds. Let's take a look at [:Bugs/Subscriptions:bug subscriptions].