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Re: Ask HN: Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team?

#11

Trac is great and plugs in really easily to SVN. It's at least worth playing around with since so many open source projects use it. I wrote a Django middleware that uses Trac's xmlrpc plugin to automatically create Trac tickets for errors. I'm sure it's just as simple to do for whatever you're using.

Redmine, is a good alternative.

Re: Ask HN: Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team?

#12

Trac is great and plugs in really easily to SVN. It's at least worth playing around with since so many open source projects use it. I wrote a Django middleware that uses Trac's xmlrpc plugin to automatically create Trac tickets for errors. I'm sure it's just as simple to do for whatever you're using.

Redmine, is a good alternative.

Or try Unfuddle, which is sort of like hosted redmine. They have a freemium model, free for 2 users, unlimited repos.

Re: Ask HN: Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team?

#13
We use Redmine here (~4 people) and it's great. Rails backed, lots of plugin if you need more and easily extendable.

It integrate cleanly with CVS, Git, Mercurial, SVN, ... and we'll even do invoicing with it in a few weeks.

There are paid hosting options if you don't want to maintain it yourself.

Re: Ask HN: Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team?

#14
I recently started using redmine (http://www.redmine.org) and only had good experiences with it. It's an open-source ruby on rails project management "framework". It supports everything you are looking for, and then some more, namely:

- roadmap for upcoming versions/features - dedicated site for documentation - wiki - forum - tickets - repository support

The repository support let's you do things like refer to a ticket in a commit message which then gets associated with said ticket (or even changes the status of the ticket as soon as you commit the bugfix).

I could go on and on... but you get the point.

Here's a demo where you can give some of the things a try:

http://demo.redmine.org/

Re: Ask HN: Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team?

#16
post #3

Post-its on a whiteboard.

You probably meant this as a joke, but I have a friend who is hyper-organized with all of her to-dos on a whiteboard... different sections are different things/different priority levels. Maybe we will hack together a Wii whiteboard Johnny Chung Lee style and use virtual post-its! ( http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/ )

You probably meant that as a joke too, but I think a virtual whiteboard with Post-Its would be a great product. Colour-coded notes to indicate priority, clustering by physical location on the screen, larger text sizes for very-urgent-do-it-today tasks. You could draw lines on the whiteboard to show the relationship between notes, could have the ability to roll back to previous days to track history, attach files to Post-Its, etc, etc. I currently do something like this using index cards on a pinboard, and it works really well.

Re: Ask HN: Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team?

#20

Post-its on a whiteboard.

Your advice is great, but it is too simple and too obvious to be used by any modern team. It is old-fashioned, without any noise and hype around it.

Fortunately, the guys at http://73primenumbers.com/ started a campaign to add the missing buzz.

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