The Reporter submits a bug report on the website. The
bug is in the Needs Triage state.
Jane Random BugBuster confirms that the bug report has
sufficient information to be reproducible. If not, she goes
back and forth with the reporter to obtain the needed
information. At this point the bug is set to the
Open state.
Joe Random Committer takes interest in the PR and
assigns it to himself, or Jane Random BugBuster decides that
Joe is best suited to handle it and assigns it to
him. The bug should be set to the In
Discussion state.
Joe has a brief exchange with the originator (making sure it all goes into the audit trail) and determines the cause of the problem.
Joe pulls an all-nighter and whips up a patch that he
thinks fixes the problem, and submits it in a follow-up,
asking the originator to test it. He then sets the PRs
state to Patch Ready.
A couple of iterations later, both Joe and the
originator are satisfied with the patch, and Joe commits it
to -CURRENT (or directly to
-STABLE if the problem does not exist in
-CURRENT), making sure to reference the
Problem Report in his commit log (and credit the originator
if they submitted all or part of the patch) and, if
appropriate, start an MFC countdown. The bug is set to the
Needs MFC state.
If the patch does not need MFCing, Joe then closes the
PR as Issue Resolved.
Many PRs are submitted with very little information about the problem, and some are either very complex to solve, or just scratch the surface of a larger problem; in these cases, it is very important to obtain all the necessary information needed to solve the problem. If the problem contained within cannot be solved, or has occurred again, it is necessary to re-open the PR.
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