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7 <sect1 id="ch05-filingbug">
8 <title>Enter a new bug</title>
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11 <para>You found a bug, or somebody else found a bug and you decided to add
12 it to Trac. Or, you want to log a request for a feature that somebody has
13 asked for, or a task of some other type.
19 <para>Go to <ulink url="http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/newticket"/>
23 <listitem><para>Select the ticket type (defect for bugs, or enhancement,
27 <listitem><para>The <emphasis>Short summary</emphasis> and <emphasis>
28 Full Description</emphasis> are mandatory.</para>
31 <listitem><para>Select the <emphasis>Priority</emphasis>. Use your
32 own judgement on how important fixing this bug is. If you're not sure just
33 leave the default. Priorities are periodically re-evaluated and changed
37 <listitem><para>Select the <emphasis>Component</emphasis> - the only
38 options are Book or Bootscripts.</para>
41 <listitem><para>Select the <emphasis>Severity</emphasis> as appropriate,
42 anything from trivial to critical or blocker.</para>
45 <listitem><para>If you don't want to assign yourself to it right away, leave
46 the <emphasis>Assign To</emphasis> field blank. It'll be assigned to
47 <email>lfs-book@linuxfromscratch.org</email> then, until a real editor
48 changes that to himself.</para>
51 <listitem><para>If you wish, select a <emphasis>Milestone</emphasis>, either
52 the next version, or future.</para>
55 <listitem><para>Select the proper <emphasis>Version</emphasis>. You most
56 always will choose the <emphasis>SVN</emphasis> version. It doesn't make
57 sense to report a bug against an old version if it's no longer in Subversion. If it
58 is, then SVN is newer than a previously released stable book version. The
59 versions are basically there only for people who don't edit the book and who
60 want to report a bug against the book version they have.</para>
63 <listitem><para>Fill in the <emphasis>Keywords</emphasis> and <emphasis>Cc:
64 </emphasis> fields if you wish.</para>
67 <listitem><para>Particularly if you are using any formatting in the Full
68 description field, you may wish to click on the <emphasis>Preview</emphasis>
72 <listitem><para>As the last step, click on the <emphasis>Submit ticket</emphasis>
73 button to commit your changes to the database. A log of this will be sent to
74 the <email>lfs-book@linuxfromscratch.org</email> mailinglist.</para>