1 # Chrome Network Bug Triage
3 The Chrome network team uses a two day bug triage rotation. The main goals are
4 to identify and label new network bugs, and investigate network bugs when no
10 * Identify new crashers
11 * Identify new network issues.
12 * Request data about recent Cr-Internals-Network issue.
13 * Investigate each recent Cr-Internals-Network issue.
14 * Monitor UMA histograms and gasper alerts.
17 * Investigate unowned and owned-but-forgotten net/ crashers
18 * Investigate old bugs
19 * Close obsolete bugs.
21 All of the above is to be done on each rotation. These responsibilities should
22 be tracked, and anything left undone at the end of a rotation should be handed
23 off to the next triager. The downside to passing along bug investigations like
24 this is each new triager has to get back up to speed on bugs the previous
25 triager was investigating. The upside is that triagers don't get stuck
26 investigating issues after their time after their rotation, and it results in a
27 uniform, predictable two day commitment for all triagers.
33 * Identify new crashers that are potentially network related. You should check
34 the most recent canary, the previous canary (if the most recent less than a
35 day old), and any of dev/beta/stable that were released in the last couple of
36 days, for each platform. File Cr-Internals-Network bugs on the tracker when
37 new crashers are found.
39 * Identify new network bugs, both on the bug tracker and on the crash server.
40 All Unconfirmed issues filed during your triage rotation should be scanned,
41 and, for suspected network bugs, a network label assigned. A triager is
42 responsible for looking at bugs reported from noon PST / 3:00 pm EST of the
43 last day of the previous triager's rotation until the same time on the last
44 day of their rotation.
46 * Investigate each recent (new comment within the past week or so)
47 Cr-Internals-Network issue, driving getting information from reporters as
48 needed, until you can do one of the following:
50 * Mark it as *WontFix* (working as intended, obsolete issue) or a
53 * Mark it as a feature request.
55 * Remove the Cr-Internals-Network label, replacing it with at least one
56 more specific network label or non-network label. Promptly adding
57 non-network labels when appropriate is important to get new bugs in front
58 of someone familiar with the relevant code, and to remove them from the
59 next triager's radar. Because of the way the bug report wizard works, a
60 lot of bugs incorrectly end up with the network label.
62 * The issue is assigned to an appropriate owner.
64 * If there is no more specific label for a bug, it should be investigated
65 until we have a good understanding of the cause of the problem, and some
66 idea how it should be fixed, at which point its status should be set to
67 Available. Future triagers should ignore bugs with this status, unless
68 investigating stale bugs.
70 * Monitor UMA histograms and gasper alerts.
72 * For each Gasper alert that fires, the triager should determine if the
73 alert is real (not due to noise), and file a bug with the appropriate
74 label if so. Note that if no label more specific than
75 Cr-Internals-Network is appropriate, the responsibility remains with the
76 triager to continue investigating the bug, as above.
78 ### Best Effort (As you have time):
80 * Investigate unowned and owned but forgotten net/ crashers that are still
81 occurring (As indicated by
82 [go/chromecrash](https://goto.google.com/chromecrash)), prioritizing frequent
83 and long standing crashers.
85 * Investigate old bugs, prioritizing the most recent.
87 * Close obsolete bugs.
89 If you've investigated an issue (in code you don't normally work on) to an
90 extent that you know how to fix it, and the fix is simple, feel free to take
91 ownership of the issue and create a patch while on triage duty, but other tasks
94 See [bug-triage-suggested-workflow.md](bug-triage-suggested-workflow.md) for
97 See [bug-triage-labels.md](bug-triage-labels.md) for labeling tips for network