About Issues

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Finding and Filing Issues

About Issue Tracker (Formerly IssueZilla)

OpenOffice.org uses a modified version of mozilla.org's BugZilla to track issues. Issue Tracker is integrated into CollabNet's SourceCast, upon which the OpenOffice.org website runs. This document was written for IssueZilla, Issue Tracker's predecessor. It is still relevant. However, an excellent account of the current Issue Tracker can be found in the Help.

If you are a registered user of OpenOffice.org, you can use Issue Tracker to browse existing issues, enter new issues, or modify the details of an existing issues. Please be aware that you'll need to enable cookies in your browser to use IssueZilla.

Why Use Issue Tracker?

Why use Issue Tracker and not a mail list? Because it allows everyone to keep track of the many big and small tasks, requests, enhancements, whatever that circulate throughout an Open Source project. What is more, the issue tracker makes it easier to determine if any another user has had similar problems. And if the problem has been resolved, it can alert the relevant people to the solutions found. In short, by registering and then filing issues with Issue Tracker, you become a contributing member of OpenOffice.org.

Note: You can delete your SourceCast account and thereby disable your Issue Tracker account at any time. However, if you then decide to re-register using the same account information, you will not be able to file issues. This is because Issue Tracker accounts are never full deleted, only disabled. You thus have to initiate a new account.

Issue Notifications

Issue Tracker will notify you via email about changes made to issues you reported. Please do not reply to these messages but login the website and add your comments to the issue. If you don't want to receive these notification emails you may want to edit your Issue Tracker preferences and change the email settings.

OpenOffice.org Issues

You can report and query issues in the OpenOffice.org code/documentation/ui/definition. Issue Tracker currently reports and tracks the following issue-types: DEFECT, ENHANCEMENT, FEATURE, TASK and PATCH (we can, of course, add new issue types as necessary). For example, you could report a bug as DEFECT; Track ENHANCEMENT requests to existing features; discuss adding new FEATURES; track a TASK for others to do (delegating or requesting help). Furthermore Issue Tracker is also used to track PATCH submissions.

OpenOffice.org Infrastructure Problems

If you find an issue with some part of the OpenOffice.org infrastructure (not the application), such as a problem with the site search engine, or a problem with CVS, please use the following table to guide you in reporting the problem:


Issue Links
Concurrent Version Control (CVS) Query Reports Enter Report
Issue Tracking (Issue Tracker) Query Reports Enter Report
Web-based Source and Revision Browsing (CVSWeb) Query Reports Enter Report
Site-wide Search (Swish-E) Query Reports Enter Report
Site, User and Project Administration (SourceCast) Query Reports Enter Report
Mailing Lists (ezmlm) Query Reports Enter Report
Downloads Query Reports Enter Report
Website Documentation and Instructions (HTML) Query Reports Enter Report
General Website Issues ( Look, Links, Workings) Query Reports

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