Configuration management covers the processes used to control, coordinate, and track: code, requirements, documentation, problems, change requests, designs, tools/compilers/libraries/patches, changes made to them, and who makes the changes. (See the 'Tools' section for web resources with listings of configuration management tools.
Each artifact can contain several attributes as:
Open/Reopened/Closed.
Type is a kind of artifact - bug/issue or enhancement or suggestion or wanted, etc.
Component is a project module or a subsystem distinct by different criteria.
This can be - client/server, host/target, ui/doc/installer, etc.
Version is a tag for
Milestone is a data when issue should be resolved.
How danger is bug or issue. For example it may be crash, corruption (of user data), or misspelling.
Possible values:
blocker critical major minor trivial
See:
How important is to fix bug. What bugs are first to fix.
Possible values:
highest high normal low lowest
Reason for why a ticket was closed. One of fixed, invalid, wontfix, duplicate.