This page describes the various fields that you see on a bug.

STATUS

RESOLUTION
The Status field indicates the current state of a bug. Only certain status transitions are allowed. The Resolution field indicates what happened to this bug.
Open Bugs
UNCONFIRMED
This bug has recently been added to the database. Nobody has confirmed that this bug is valid. Users who have the "canconfirm" permission set may confirm this bug, changing its state to CONFIRMED. Or, it may be directly resolved and marked RESOLVED.
CONFIRMED
This bug is valid and has recently been filed. Bugs in this state become IN_PROGRESS when somebody is working on them, or become resolved and marked RESOLVED.
IN_PROGRESS
This bug is not yet resolved, but is assigned to the proper person who is working on the bug. From here, bugs can be given to another person and become CONFIRMED, or resolved and become RESOLVED.
No resolution yet. All bugs which are in one of these "open" states have no resolution set.
Closed Bugs
RESOLVED
A resolution has been performed, and it is awaiting verification by QA. From here bugs are either reopened and given some open status, or are verified by QA and marked VERIFIED.
VERIFIED
QA has looked at the bug and the resolution and agrees that the appropriate resolution has been taken. This is the final status for bugs.
FIXED
A fix for this bug is checked into the tree and tested.
INVALID
The problem described is not a bug.
WONTFIX
The problem described is a bug which will never be fixed.
DUPLICATE
The problem is a duplicate of an existing bug. When a bug is marked as a DUPLICATE, you will see which bug it is a duplicate of, next to the resolution.
WORKSFORME
All attempts at reproducing this bug were futile, and reading the code produces no clues as to why the described behavior would occur. If more information appears later, the bug can be reopened.

Other Fields

Alias
A short, unique name assigned to a bug in order to assist with looking it up and referring to it in other places in Bugzilla.
Assignee
The person in charge of resolving the bug.
Assignee Real Name
A custom Unknown Type field in this installation of Bugzilla.
Blocks
This bug must be resolved before the bugs listed in this field can be resolved.
Bug ID
The numeric id of a bug, unique within this entire installation of Bugzilla.
Build
A custom Free Text field in this installation of Bugzilla.
CC
Users who may not have a direct role to play on this bug, but who are interested in its progress.
Changed
When this bug was last updated.
Classification
Bugs are categorised into Classifications, Products and Components. classifications is the top-level categorisation.
Comment
Bugs have comments added to them by Bugzilla users. You can search for some text in those comments.
Comment Tag
A custom Unknown Type field in this installation of Bugzilla.
Component
Components are second-level categories; each belongs to a particular Product. Select a Product to narrow down this list.
Content
This is a field available in searches that does a Google-like 'full-text' search on the Summary and Comment fields.
Creation date
When the bug was filed.
Deadline
The date that this bug must be resolved by, entered in YYYY-MM-DD format.
Depends on
The bugs listed here must be resolved before this bug can be resolved.
Host
A custom Free Text field in this installation of Bugzilla.
Importance
The importance of a bug is described as the combination of its Priority and Severity.
Keywords
You can add keywords from a defined list to bugs, in order to easily identify and group them.
Last reconfirmed
A custom Date/Time field in this installation of Bugzilla.
Last Visit
A custom Date/Time field in this installation of Bugzilla.
Personal Tags
Unlike Keywords which are global and visible by all users, Personal Tags are personal and can only be viewed and edited by their author. Editing them won't send any notification to other users. Use them to tag and keep track of bugs.
Priority
Engineers prioritize their bugs using this field.
Product
Bugs are categorised into Products and Components.
QA Contact
The person responsible for confirming this bug if it is unconfirmed, and for verifying the fix once the bug has been resolved.
QA Contact Real Name
A custom Unknown Type field in this installation of Bugzilla.
Reporter
The person who filed this bug.
Reporter Real Name
A custom Unknown Type field in this installation of Bugzilla.
See Also
This allows you to refer to bugs in other installations. You can enter a URL to a bug in the 'Add Bug URLs' field to note that that bug is related to this one. You can enter multiple URLs at once by separating them with whitespace.

You should normally use this field to refer to bugs in other installations. For bugs in this installation, it is better to use the Depends on and Blocks fields.

Severity
How severe the bug is, or whether it's an enhancement.
Summary
The bug summary is a short sentence which succinctly describes what the bug is about.
Target
A custom Free Text field in this installation of Bugzilla.
Target Milestone
The Target Milestone field is used to define when the engineer the bug is assigned to expects to fix it.
URL
Bugs can have a URL associated with them - for example, a pointer to a web site where the problem is seen.
Version
The version field defines the version of the software the bug was found in.
Votes
Some bugs can be voted for, and you can limit your search to bugs with more than a certain number of votes.