From Fedora Project Wiki
Why Triage Bugs?
- saves package maintainers time chasing down missing information in bug reports
- helps to identify bugs that should be fixed before release (adding to tracker lists)
- allows maintainers to spend their finite time on bugs that are ready to be worked on
- gives bug reporters the feeling that someone has acknowledged their problem
- strives to provide a level of certainty that the total number of open bugs is accurate
- helps to maintain structure in bugzilla by following defined processes to close bugs for EOL releases
- helps sift out duplicates which also reduces work loads on the maintainers
- provides an idea of where problem areas are in the distribution
- good way to learn more about Fedora
- assist maintainers by reproducing bugs and suggesting work arounds or patches