In search for a bug tracking system
I’m about to start a new development project with a new group and we needed some sort of bug tracking system to coordinate all our efforts. Previously I have used www.mantisbt.org/ but its messy and I don’t like the layout at all.
Requirements
- Installs on a LAMP system (MySQL, PHP, ect..) - Easy to install, I am lazy and I want to do as little work as possible
- Self hosted - Paranoia keeps me from using anyone else server.
- Web interface - Need somewhere to submit a ticket.
- Notification - The user that submitted the ticket needs to be notified when we add a comment.
- Roll and category based access control - I don't want security based tickets visible to the public
- Required fields: Department/Category, Status, Priority, issue, steps to reproduce, Attached files.
Nice to haves
- Free or cheap -
- Email interface - I would be nice if users could submit and comment on tickets via email instead of having to log in to the web interface.
- Integrates with SVN - Some way of telling the user what version of the code this ticket was resolved in.
- The ability to add custom fields.
Different Bug tracking systems out there
- Redmine - Written in Ruby on rails and will not run out of the box on a LAMP system.
- Bugzilla - Mature, its been around for years and used by many different projects. IT scales increadably well up to extreamly large projects such as Mozilla's bug tracking system
- Trac - I really like how minimalist it is. Written in python and uses MySQL for a database.
In the end I went with Trac because how how easy it was to install and its minimalist feel.
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