# Bugs

If you are looking for bugs/enhancements to start contributing, they have the keyword "helpwanted" or "bugday":

EGit bugs with helpwanted or bugday

JGit bugs with helpwanted or bugday

## Links

### Filing Bugs

#### How to file bugs

- How do I report a bug in Eclipse?
- Bug Writing Guidelines
- How to Report Bugs Effectively by Simon Tatham

#### File a bug

- File a bug for EGit
- File a bug for JGit

### Bug Reports and Links

Trends (bugs and enhancements) | EGit | JGit
--- | --- | ---
Open by component (date range editable) | Open | Open
Open by status | Open | Open
Assigned | Assigned | Assigned
Open and closed by status | All | All
Lists | EGit | JGit
Unresolved for passed target milestones | Open | Open
Open bugs | Open | Open
Open enhancements | Open | Open
Bugs with votes | With Votes | With Votes
Assigned bugs and enhancements | Assigned | Assigned
Reports | EGit and JGit
Open EGit and JGit bugs | Open
Assigned EGit and JGit bugs | Assigned
New bugs opened | Last day | Last week | Last month | Last year
Bugs closed | Last day | Last week | Last month | Last year

To get notified of bugs, go to your e-mail preferences and add <product>.<component>-inbox@eclipse.org to your watch list. For example to get notified of EGit UI bugs, add egit.ui-inbox@eclipse.org.

## Keywords

To simplify bug management we started to tag EGit bugs with additional pseudo keywords (not normal Bugzilla keywords). The tags are prepended to the bug's summary field. Since we use these tags for internal bug management reporters of a bug should not add any pseudo keywords when filing the bug. The owner of the component bucket is responsible to add the keywords.

Keywords are used to group bugs without assigning them to a developer. So with the introduction of the keywords it is easy to search for all bugs belonging to a specific sub component. For example to get an overview of all open refactoring issues search for new, assigned or reopened bugs containing the word [refactoring] in the summary field.

Be aware that not all bugs are tagged with keywords, only bugs that belong to a certain sub group may have a tag attached. The following lists some of the currently used tags.

Tag | Description | Link
--- | --- | ---
[sync] | everything related to Synchronize / Synchronize View | View bugs
[repoView] | everything related to the Git Repository View | View bugs
[releng] | everything related to release engineering and build | View bugs
[historyView] | everything related to the Git History View | View bugs

## Spam Bugs

If you come across spam bugs you can request webmaster to delete them by marking them as duplicate of bug 442999.

Also see bug 502814