Can "triage an issue" mean "debug an issue"? [duplicate]

Solution 1:

From Collins:

Triage is the process of quickly examining sick or injured people, for example after an accident or a battle, so that those who are in the most serious condition can be treated first.

In the context of bug fixing this typically means examining the bug report in a bid to determine the bug's priority and, by extension, its position in a work queue.

So, once the bug has been examined and prioritised then the triage phase ends. I'd suggest that the parallels with triage in emergency medicine break down if people continue to refer to a bug as being in triage after its priority has been assigned.

The term "bug triage" is not an Indianism (Googling "bug triage" will return enough non Indian results to suggest that it is common idiom in the software realm) but perhaps you are asking whether its use after the bug has been prioritised is an Indianism. If so, I'd suggest that's simply a misunderstanding of the term and I'd be surprised if that misunderstanding is specific to India :)