Topic awaiting preservation: BugTracking Software

Does anyone have any good experience to offer with any bugtracking systems? I just tried Bugzilla and was blown away but its total lack of anything close to aestetics or usability.

I have a project I am working where I will need average Joe User to be able to easily log bugs. If anyone has come across any bug tracking software that would be suitable for end users and carries the same price tag as bugzilla (see 0) let me know.

It seems a waste of time to create one from scratch if there are existing resources out there that might have a whole lot more testing put into them.

Dan @ Code Town

Since noone had any solutions I decided to work on my own. I am sharing this early version with you. If you are interested download it and try it out. The license on this stuff is pretty restrictive. You may only use it for personal / non-comercial use, and you must submit any modifications back to me.

I am doing this so that I can keep some control over the initial development. I expect to change the license to something freebsd'ish once I feel it has evolved to a somewhat stable point.

http://www.codetown.org/code/bugfix.tgz

Let me know what you think.

Dan @ Code Town

p.s. I didn't make a readme or even add any worthwhile comments to this. The installation is pretty straitforward. You uncompress the archive set the variables in localconfig.php and then go to install.php, enter the needed information, and then go to index.php and you are off and running.

If you want to make this available to the public you will want to delete install.php once you have done the initial install.

This is pretty insecure right now. I can't even count the number of possible exploits that might be in here.

Dan @ Code Town

I'm currently evaluating roundup - it ain't perfect, but it looks immensly hackable to me.

Needs python 2.1+ though.

ugh... I forgot a link... http://www.codetown.org/bugfix you can give it a little test run but be gental. If you break it make a bug report .

Dan @ Code Town

Roundup looks very interesting... I am going to have to try that out.

Dan @ Code Town

WarMage, a bug report
I created a user "DmS" but I'm not allowed to log in.
I'd register it as a bug, but in this case it's a wee bit hard to do
/Dan

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-{ a vibration is a movement that doesn't know which way to go }-

doesn't work in opera at all ( I see the green top bar... but no login screen).

Roundup has some very nice features, like instant email integration... you'll need quite a bit of work to reimplement that. But then, it's webinterface isn't quite up do ozonian design standards (now... if we got it to look pretty!)

Sorry about those errors.

DmS you should now be able to log in. I had the login checking for [a-zA-Z0-9]{6,12} but I didn't have the account creation checking for the same thing. So it took DmS as an invalid username. I have fixed this so that you are now valid.

TP for the opera issue I had some bad markup, it seems that firefox is more forgiving that it should be. The main issue what that I had a span tag which I opened but I forgot to place the / in the close tag. I have cleared up that issue and it is now working in opera.

I was looking into Roundup but it requires that you use its server behind apache if you want any kind of usable performance. That turned me off.

<edit> not == now </edit>

Dan @ Code Town

(Edited by WarMage on 07-21-2004 18:28)

like unlike php... which requires to be put 'behind' apache (and suphp) to offer any kind of security?

I think that's a feature, not a bug... way better than a stand-alone webserver that could not be put behind apache.

I like it, for a small simple site it seems very well done, I'd make some of the text fields bigger though.

I tend to find most packaged applications to be too bulky and overly feature rich. Most of the time I prefer simple little scripts like this much better. If I need functionality I'd add it myself.



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

Cool, now I got in.
Clean, simple and to the point.
As it stands now it would work decently for a small project manager/test manager.

Sort of makes me want to restart the skeleton for a bug/request manager I wrote back in 2000, that one had appr these features, plus the ability to create & track several projects in parallell. In that one the client could add bugs/requests and suggest a priority, we could reply to the request with estimates and the client could then say go/no go and add in what version it should be implemented.

Hmmm so many potential projects, so little time
Nice work on yours Dan!
/Dan

{cell 260}
-{ a vibration is a movement that doesn't know which way to go }-