All developers may create, add comments to, and confirm bugs from other projects. Only maintainers and the BugMaster may update the status, priority, and assigned to fields.
To view a list of projects and developers as well as various statistics about the bugs attached to them, use the ``List Overall Status'' link in the left frame of the Anthill page. Your entry in the developers table and the entries of any projects you maintain will be highlighted so that they may be quickly located.
To create a new bug report, use the project, use the ``New Bug'' link in the left frame of the Anthill page. The fields entitled ``Your Name'' and ``Your E-mail Address'' should already be filled in, but you must select the project name and provide a short, one-line summary and a full description of the problem before submitting the bug. If the bug report is successfully added, there is no need for you to confirm it separately as this is done automatically.
To view the bugs in a project, you must use the ``Manage My Bugs'' link (or the ``Manage All Bugs'' link if you are the BugMaster) on the left frame. You will then be asked for some input criteria to filter the bugs displayed:
When you submit your search, you may not find any bugs that match your query. In that case, use the provided link to retrace your steps and try again. If you do find results, they will be shown in a table that contains their Request ID, the summary of the bug, the date and time it was submitted, who it is assigned to, and who submitted it. You may click on the summary section of any bug to view a more in depth report of it and be able to edit it.
After you have retrieved a list of bugs for a project, you may view or edit them by clicking on the link in the summary field of the results table. You will be presented with the full listing of the bug report, including any comments that have been added by other developers. If the bug was submitted by an anonymous user, both the status and priority of the bug will be ``Unconfirmed'', and so you may use the ``Confirm'' link to verify that the bug exists. If you have further information that you think should be recorded about the bug, you may use the ``Add comment'' link to do so. If you are the maintainer of the project or the project is not restrictive, then you may change the Status, Priority, and Assigned To fields according to your wishes and use the Update button to make the changes take effect.
The only way that bugs may be completely removed from the records is to delete the project that contains them. If you merely want to ignore bugs that have been fixed, you should mark them as ``Closed''. Bugs that have been so marked will not be counted in the overall status page.
Wherever the name ``Anthill'' is mentioned in this document, it refers to the Anthill Bug Manager. If other projects, things, or people coincidentally bear the name ``Anthill'', it is assumed that the reader can divine from the context of this document that only the Anthill Bug Manager is being referred to. If not, that is what this note is for.