JIRA tracks issues, which can be bugs, feature requests, or any other tasks you want to track.
Each issue has a variety of associated information including:
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the issue type
- a summary
- a description of the issue
- the project which the issue belongs to
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components within a project which are associated with this issue
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versions of the project which are affected by this issue
- versions of the project which will resolve the issue
- the environment in which it occurs
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a priority for being fixed
- an assigned developer to work on the task
- a reporter - the user who entered the issue into the system
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the current status of the issue
- a full history log of all field changes that have occurred
- a comment trail added by users
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if the issue is resolved - the resolution
Issue Types
Priority Levels
Statuses
Resolutions
An issue can be resolved in many ways, only one of them being "Fixed". The defined resolutions are listed below. You can add more in the administration section.
- Product Update (Major)
- A major update for this issue is checked into the tree and tested.
- Product Update (Minor)
- A minor update for this issue is checked into the tree and tested.
- Product Update (Bug)
- A bug fix for this issue is checked into the tree and tested.
- Won't Fix
- The problem described is an issue which will never be fixed.
- Answered
- The issue was answered.
- Duplicate
- The problem is a duplicate of an existing issue.
- Cannot Reproduce
- All attempts at reproducing this issue failed, or not enough information was available to reproduce the issue. Reading the code produces no clues as to why this behavior would occur. If more information appears later, please reopen the issue.
- Third-party Problem
- The problem is caused by a third-party product.
- Customer Timeout
- If there has not been a response from the customer within two weeks, the issue is closed.
- Not a Problem
- The reported behaviour is as expected.
- Rejected
- The issue was rejected.
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