Ticket system guidelines

The aim of the JOSM ticket system is to report bugs, suggest enhancements/improvements or submit patches regarding JOSM and its plugins.

• Everyone (even anonymous) is allowed to create tickets, comment on tickets and add attachments.
• Bug reports must be created by using the JOSM internal feature Help -> Report Bug.
• Don't set the milestone, this is permitted to JOSM core developpers only.
• Don't reopen resolved tickets of previous milestones. Create a new ticket instead and reference related previous tickets.

The meaning of some fields of a ticket

• Version:
  • tested - the bug is present already in the current tested version of JOSM
  • latest - the bug is present only in the current latest version of JOSM but not in the current tested version (i.e. it is a regression of the current release cycle)
  • if not sure, just leave it empty
• Priority:
  • blocker - JOSM doesn't work at all for a majority of users
  • critical - a large number of users is affected (we're getting a lot of duplicate reports), usually results in a hotfix and manual latest compilation
  • major - more important issue affecting a group of users
  • normal - default priority, used for most tickets
  • minor - changes with very little benefit, also little typos (except in osm keys or values)
  • trivial - ?

See also

• TracTickets

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