Issues are tracked at bugs.chromium.org.

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Status

Issues that do not have a contributor actively working on them may be in one of three states:

  • New: issue has not had initial review yet.
  • AwaitingInformation: issue needs more detail attached.
  • Accepted: problem reproduced or feature request acknowledged.

Issues being worked on should change the status to let others know it may be resolved in the near future:

  • Started: a contributor has begun work on this issue.
  • ChangeUnderReview: a change for this issue been uploaded for code review.

Closed states resolve an issue:

  • Submitted: a fix has been submitted to a stable branch or the master branch and will be included in a future release.
  • Released: a release has been announced including this fix.

Priority

Priority Response Resolution
Priority-0   “soon”
Priority-1    
Priority-2 3 months best effort
Priority-3 6 months best effort
Priority-4 12 months best effort

Priority-0

  • Critical issue causing failures in production.
  • Major functionality broken that renders a feature unusable.

Priority-1

  • Urgent; the issue is blocking a user from getting their job done.
  • Breakage blocking next release (e.g. Guice injectors).
  • Defect causing functional regression in production.
  • Production issue impacting customers.

Priority-2

  • Work tied to roadmap, or near term upcoming release.
  • Inconvenient bug that should be addressed in one of the next few releases.

Priority-3

  • We feel your pain: the team would like to fix this, but lacks the resources to do this soon. Gerrit is an open source project; contributions are appreciated.
  • Desirable feature or enhancement not on the roadmap.

Priority-4

  • Ponies and icebox.
  • Unfortunate: it’s a legitimate issue, but the team never plans to fix this.

Type

  • Type-Bug is broken functionality.
  • Type-Feature is a request for new feature or enhancement.

Component

PolyGerrit

The new web interface built in Polymer. Issues in this component are actively managed by PolyGerrit maintainers involved in the daily development efforts.

NoteDb

Related to the change metadata in Git project, which is migrating Gerrit off the SQL “ReviewDb” database.

googlesource

Issue is unique to the googlesource.com family of servers, including gerrit-review.googlesource.com. This covers both administration support required (e.g. correct a broken user account) and issues unique to the server’s plugins (e.g. authentication/web sessions or secondary index).

plugins

Issues for a plugin project hosted under plugins/. Actively developed plugins may have their own subcomponent.