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  = Triaging instructions =
+ == Standard Operating Procedures ==
+ Failure to follow these simple guidelines may result in severe bodily harm at the hands of lamalex and didrocks.
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+ === Keeping Upstream and Downstream statuses in sync ===
+ The upstream and downstream DX workflow is a little bit different than other projects. Since there is almost no distro patching of DX projects packaging bugs are an extremely small subset of bugs reported. For this reason, the workflow is as follows.
+  1. Make sure the bug has both an upstream and downstream task.
+  2. Keep statuses in sync.
+   * Upstream is the master. Sync downstream statuses to upstream.
+   * The exception here is for downstream packages that are fix released. Occasionally a fix will be cherry-picked from unreleased DX code, and released in a package to fix a critical issue. In this case do not sync the downstream status to the upstream.
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+ === Marking affected components ===
+ During triaging it is often the case that a bug reported will actually be a bug in a base component. When this occurs it is imperative to add a task on that component. For example, if a bug in nux is crashing unity, a task should be added against nux, and statuses should be sync'd with nux as the master.
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  == Design Bugs ==
  Some bugs are not technical defects, but behavioral, or visual ones. These often require input from the design team before they can be fixed. When a bug is determined to be a design bug, it should have an ''Ayatana design'' task added to it, and its Unity status should be set to ''opinion''. After a design decision has been reached the Unity status should be set to ''triaged'' as there is then enough information for the bug to be fixed. See also the ''Blocked waiting for design decision'' canned response.