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Issue tracking the process of managing and maintains listing of issues, as needed by an organization.

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Forking a repo on GitHub but allowing new issues on the fork

I have previously forked other people's repos on GitHub, and I have noticed that issues stay with the original repo, and that I can't file issues on the forked repo. I now have the following task. I am working for a small business where development…
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Should I tell someone that their commit caused a regression?

When you track down and fix a regression—i.e. a bug that caused previously working code to stop working—version control makes it entirely possible to look up who committed the change that broke it. Is it worth doing this? Is it constructive to point…
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Should developers enter bugs into the bug tracking system?

While developing (either features or bug fixes) I sometimes happen to discover bugs that are not directly related to what I'm working on. What should I do in that situation. Just fix it? Try to remember to fix it later? Write it down somewhere? …
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Why do some big projects, like Git and Debian, only use a mailing list and not an issue tracker?

Bug tracker for any decent sized project seem like a bit of a no-brainer to me - it makes it really easy to organise hundreds or thousands issues, without issues colliding or getting mixed up. So when I see some really big projects, like Git, using…
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Should I record a bug that I discovered and patched?

I suppose that this is a common situation: I test some code, discover a bug, fix it and commit the bug-fix to the repository. Assuming that many people work on this project, should I first create a bug report, assign it to myself, and refer to it in…
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How big of a team do you need to benefit from bug tracking software?

My development team just grew by 100% (from 1 developer to 2). My new cohort want to invest in bug tracking software. Is there benefits to such software for such a small team?
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Bug reopen vs. new

A bug was opened, fixed, verified and closed. A month later, it showed up again in a subsequent version after several iterations without any regression. Provided the bug characteristics are the same, would you reopen the existing bug ID or open a…
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Why are reproduction steps helpful for fixing software bugs?

Our company have a support team and a dev team. We require reproduction steps on every bug report, however sometimes the support team submit reports without and become frustrated when dev close them as "cannot reproduce / cannot fix". Support then…
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Simple issue tracker for 1-2 developers

I'm currently working mostly alone on a project (in Java). I'm mostly alone as I have an advisor that gives me high level instructions on what to do, and will seldom make any code contribution. She will code in a couple of acceptance tests from time…
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Too much version control and bug tracking overhead per change?

I work at a place that is CVS-crazy and Bugzilla-nuts. There are so many branches off each release that one cannot count them. Everyone is constantly auto-merging. There is no fluidity at this job. Everything feels lock-step. It takes 25 steps…
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How to manage github issues for (priority, etc)?

I'm new to github, and am looking for advice on how to manage issues. I'm used to having priority and other ordering options but see that none exist. How do others manages issues during the lifecycle of a bug/feature? Thanks in advance.
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What to do with abandoned issues in GitHub?

If someone opens an issue on GitHub but more information to reproduce the error is asked and never given, what's the normal procedure? Example. Here the author states that the "nav breaks". While I believe it is fixed, I would like word from the…
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What is an untriaged bug?

I am an undergrad studying Computer Science. When I tried reporting bugs to several projects, I came across the classification untriaged a lot. A web search didn't really explain what this means. Could you tell me what an untriaged bug is?
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How do you track bugs in your personal projects?

I'm trying to decide if I need to reassess my defect-tracking process for my home-grown projects. For the last several years, I really just track defects using TODO tags in the code, and keeping track of them in a specific view (I use Eclipse,…
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Add a unit test for each new bug

In my job all developers that resolve a bug have to add a new unit test that warns about this type of bugs (in the case it occours again). If a unit test is not possible (for example, a webpage design issue), then QA department has to create a test…
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