Bugzilla keywords are labels (or 'tags') that can be applied to individual issues (aka tickets, bugs, reports) to annotate, classify or otherwise describe them in a structured manner.

Keywords are distinct from Components and other classification mechanisms in Bugzilla:

• Components are per product, Keywords are global
• An issue can only belong to one Component at a time, but an issue may have multiple Keywords.

Here is a current list of FreeBSD Bugzilla Keywords including their descriptions for use and the number of issues labelled with that keyword.

These keywords are used to classify the content or substance of the issue, rather than properties of the issue itself.

• crash
• dogfood
• easy
• feature
• install
• performance
• regression
• security
• spam
• stress2
• tracking

These keywords are used to describe which part of FreeBSD the issue is about. Note: KubilayKocak wants to move these to a different representation in the future.

• bhyve
• cam
• hwpmc
• iflib
• ipfilter
• ipv6
• loader
• mmccam
• mountroot
• pkgbase
• standards
• toolchain
• uefi
• vimage
• vt

These keywords are used to describe to which specific hardware the issue is about.

• IntelNetworking
• ThunderX
• i915

These keywords are used to describe the process flow of the issue as it is worked on.

• buildisok
• needs-patch
• needs-qa
• patch
• patch-ready