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This growing community of QA and testing volunteers helps to maintain the bug database by screening incoming reports, assigning them to the proper components and owners, adding value such as simplified test cases, etc

  • database cleansing and QA buddies -screening incoming reports and resolving as worksforme, duplicate, or invalid
    • 960 people have resolved 1 or more unconfirmed bugs
    • 100 people have resolved 20 or more unconfirmed bugs
    • 18 people have resolved 100 or more unconfirmed bugs
  • confirming the Unconfirmed -screening incoming reports for reproduceable issues and confirming the behavior.
    • 500 people have confirmed 1 or more
    • 115 people confirmed 20 or more
    • 21 people confirmed 100 or more
  • bug moving, reassigning, highlighting, adding test cases and other value
    • making sure that a bug is assigned correctly
    • shepherding bugs through the fixing process
    • creating test cases, refined steps to reproduce etc.