Bug tracking system recommendation please
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SVN
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It has to be free and able to run on Windows. Ease of install/maintanace/use if more important than feature-richness. Thanks.
Notepad. It's free, and it's at least as reliable as that POS, SVN.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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It has to be free and able to run on Windows. Ease of install/maintanace/use if more important than feature-richness. Thanks.
Repost. :laugh:
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Notepad. It's free, and it's at least as reliable as that POS, SVN.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
SVN for bug tracking? :confused: Unless improved on by Notepad, that is.
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Notepad. It's free, and it's at least as reliable as that POS, SVN.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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I'd second that. Depending on your team size it isn't exactly cheap in absolute measures, but cheap compared to paid alternatives and more than worth the price.
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Notepad. It's free, and it's at least as reliable as that POS, SVN.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Christian Graus wrote:
that POS, SVN
I think you're getting confused Christian. SVN isn't a Point Of Sale application. It's for source control. ;)
Simon
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It has to be free and able to run on Windows. Ease of install/maintanace/use if more important than feature-richness. Thanks.
blackjack2150 wrote:
It has to be free and able to run on Windows. Ease of install/maintanace/use if more important than feature-richness
We had similar requirements and ended up settling on MantisBT[^]. We haven't had any problems with it at all. My one word of advice if you're considering Mantis: although the doco says that Mantis can use an MSSQL backend, this is a lie. We couldn't get it to connect to an MSSQL server and there was absolutely no doco anywhere on the 'net to help you. If you stick to the default MySQL backend though, it's a well supported and simple installation process so you shouldn't have any problems. PS if you do use mantis and get it to talk to an MSSQL server, please let me know how you did it... :)
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It has to be free and able to run on Windows. Ease of install/maintanace/use if more important than feature-richness. Thanks.
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Rage wrote:
The product is about as good as their web site is awful...
Their web site is very awful. If your saying that their product is the same amount of good as the the website is awful, then are you saying that the product is very good? Or are you saying that the product is awful, just like the website? I'll agree it doesn't look too pretty, but it does exactly everything we wanted it too, was easy to set up and easy to customise to fit our projects.
Simon
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Damn, I was going to make the website nicer, but then people would see the revised website and think, it's not "that" bad, so the app probably isn't "that" good. Just consider yourselves lucky I didn't use the tag.
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Damn, I was going to make the website nicer, but then people would see the revised website and think, it's not "that" bad, so the app probably isn't "that" good. Just consider yourselves lucky I didn't use the tag.
ctrager wrote:
and think, it's not "that" bad, so the app probably isn't "that" good.
:laugh: Seriously though, the product is good. We chose it after reviewing several others (you saw my original post), so thanks for writing it, :) perhaps one day I'll manage to convince my management that they should donate something to support open source dev. The website did put us off at first. It has quite an amateur feel, and I'm not sure about the green. :laugh: If you want to attract more users it might be something to consider - although maybe with devs as your target audience you can get away with it, we tend to look for functionality over style. Also, the ad's at the top are quite invasive, it takes a while to move your eyes past them and onto the content (Although maybe that's what you want, I don't know how much you get for this kind of thing). Once we had the product downloaded and styled with our company logo's and branding colours though it was a fairly clear winner for us, the customisation is great. Anyway, thanks again.
Simon
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We use BugTracker.net[^] and are generally quite happy with it. Dead easy to set up, runs on windows, plenty of customisation of categories and status possible, uses a sql server backend, (and works with sql server express), and easy to restyle with css to match your companies brand if you need to. We also reviewed Trac[^] early on, and although we liked it we rejected it on it's inability to handle multiple projects. This was >6 months ago though and it was on their plan so this may have changed. Bugzilla[^] is tricky to set up and not as simple as bugtracker.net & trac, but I suppose it does the job. Wikipeida has it's usual comparisom of issue tracking software[^] that can help you find a list of free ones to try out. Two others that I've heard good things about but personally only tried the online demo are Mantis[^] and Redmine[^]. All of these have online demos so you can check then out before downloading anything.
Simon
I followed your advice and installed BugTracker.net today. It's perfect for what we need. Thanks!
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I followed your advice and installed BugTracker.net today. It's perfect for what we need. Thanks!
No prob.
Simon