Starting to think about bug/issue tracking.
Open source / free bug trackers
- Bugzilla - maybe the most popular open source bug tracker? It's a bit ugly, functional, not particularly easy to administer, or use, or anything much. But it works well and is fairly solid. Uses Perl / mod_perl.
- Mantis - fairly straight forward bug tracker. Haven't really used this one to any degree. Implemented in PHP.
- Flyspray - used to use this years ago. Simple bug tracker, lacks support for more advanced things like LDAP authentication other software listed here has. Worked well for a smaller project.
- Roundup - receives fame for being the bug tracker used by the Python project. Seems to be aimed to be more of a general framework that can easily be hacked rather than a specific bug tracker. By default looks like a fairly simplistic bug tracker.
- Trac - includes a wiki and subversion integration and so on and so forth. The bug tracker that comes with Trac looks quite reasonable.
- Redmine - looks like something targeted at project management: issue tracking, gantt charts, diff viewer, wiki, etc. etc. Ruby on Rails based thing.
Proprietary bug trackers
- Fogbugz - still haven't used this. It is Joel on Software's flagship product, and gets fairly wide praise. The most common description I have heard is that it isn't as adaptable as e.g. Jira, but if its workflow works for you its great. A bit Windows-centric, the current version has yet to be released for *nix.
- Jira - the bug tracker by Atlassian. By default, comes across as a good, full featured bug tracker. Log in as an admin, and you're consulted with all sorts of opportunities to customise, and e.g. set up your own custom fields and workflows and the like.
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