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<p>The Android Open Source Project maintains a public issue tracker where you
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can report bugs and request features for the core Android software stack.
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(For details on this issue tracker, please see the
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<a href="report-bugs.html">Reporting Bugs</a> page).
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Reporting bugs is great (thank you!), but what happens to a bug report once
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you file it? This page describes the life of a bug.</p>
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<p class="note">The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) issue tracker is
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intended only for bugs and feature requests related to the core Android
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software stack, and is a technical tool for the Open Source community.</p>
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<p>This is not a customer support forum. For support information, see the
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<a href="https://support.google.com/nexus">Nexus</a> and
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<a href="https://support.google.com/pixelphone">Pixel</a> help centers.
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Support for other devices is provided by the device manufacturers or by the
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carriers selling those devices.</p>
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<p>Support for Google applications is through
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<a href="http://support.google.com/">Google's support site</a>. Support
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for third-party applications is with each application's developer, e.g.
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through the contact information provided on Google Play.</p>
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<p>Here's the life of a bug, in a nutshell:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>A bug is filed, and has the state "New".</li>
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<li>An AOSP maintainer periodically reviews and triages bugs. Bugs are
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triaged into one of four <em>buckets</em>: New, Open, No-Action, or Resolved.</li>
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<li>Each bucket includes a number of states that provide more detail on the
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fate of the issue.</li>
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<li>Bugs marked as "Resolved" will eventually be included in a future
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release of the Android software.</li>
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</ol>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="bucket-details">Bucket details</h2>
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<p>
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We use the <strong>Status</strong> field in Issue Tracker to specify the status
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of an issue in the resolution process. This is consistent with the definitions
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specified in the <a
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href="https://developers.google.com/issue-tracker/concepts/issues#status">Issue
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Tracker documentation</a>.
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</p>
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<h3 id="new-issues">New issues</h3>
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<p>
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New issues include bug reports that are not yet being acted upon. The two states
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are:
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<ul>
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<li><strong>New:</strong> The bug report has not yet been triaged (that is,
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reviewed by an AOSP maintainer.)</li>
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<li><strong>New + Hotlist:NeedsInfo:</strong> The bug report has insufficient
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information to act upon. The person who reported the bug needs to provide
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additional detail before it can be triaged. If enough time passes and no new
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information is provided, the bug may be closed by default, as one of the
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No-Action states.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="open-issues">Open issues</h3>
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<p>
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This bucket contains bugs that need action, but which are still unresolved,
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pending a change to the source code.
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Assigned:</strong> The bug report has been recognized as an
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adequately detailed report of a legitimate issue and the bug has been assigned
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to a specific contributor to assess and analyze.</li>
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<li><strong>Accepted:</strong> The assignee has acknowledged the issue and has
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started to work on it.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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Typically, a bug starts in <strong>Assigned</strong>, and remains there until
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someone intends to resolve it, at which point it enters
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<strong>Accepted</strong>. However, note that this isn't a guarantee, and it's
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not uncommon for bugs to go from <strong>Assigned</strong> to one of the
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Resolved states.
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</p>
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<p>
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In general, if a bug is in one of these Open states, the AOSP team has
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recognized it as a legitimate issue, and a high-quality contribution fixing that
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bug is likely to get accepted. However, it's impossible to guarantee a fix in
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time for any particular release.
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</p>
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<h3 id="no-action-issues">No-Action issues</h3>
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<p>
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This bucket contains bugs that are deemed to not require any action.
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Won't Fix (Not reproducible):</strong> An AOSP contributor attempted
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to reproduce the behavior described, and was unable to do so. This sometimes
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means that the bug is legitimate but simply rare or difficult to reproduce, or
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there was not enough information to fix the issue.</li>
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<li><strong>Won't Fix (Intended behavior):</strong> An AOSP maintainer has
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determined that the behavior described isn't a bug, but is the intended
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behavior. This state is also commonly referred to as <em>working as
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intended</em> (WAI). For feature requests, an AOSP maintainer has determined
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that the request is not going to be implemented in Android.</li>
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<li><strong>Won't Fix (Obsolete):</strong> The issue is no longer relevant due
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to changes in the product.</li>
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<li><strong>Won't Fix (Infeasible):</strong> The changes that are needed to
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address the issue are not reasonably possible. This status is also used for
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issues reported that cannot be handled in AOSP, typically because it is related
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to a customized device or to an external application, or the reporter mistook
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this tracker as a help forum.</li>
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<li><strong>Duplicate:</strong> There was already an identical report in the
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issue tracker. Any actual action will be reported on that report.</li>
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</ul>
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<h3 id="resolved-issues">Resolved issues</h3>
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<p>
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This bucket contains bugs that have had action taken, and are now considered
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resolved.
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li><strong>Fixed (verified):</strong> This bug has been fixed, and is included
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in a formal release. When this state is set, we try to also set a property
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indicating which release it was fixed in.</li>
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<li><strong>Fixed:</strong> This bug has been fixed (or feature implemented) in
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a source tree, but might not yet been included in a formal release.</li>
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</ul>
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<h2 id="other-stuff">Other stuff</h2>
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<p>
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The states and lifecycle above are how we generally try to track software.
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However, Android contains a lot of software and gets a correspondingly large
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number of bugs. As a result, sometimes bugs don't make it through all the
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states in a formal progression. We do try to keep the system up to date, but
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we tend to do so in periodic "bug sweeps" where we review the database and
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make updates.</p>
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