Ask HN: Best light-weight bug tracking tool, more robust than TRAC?

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Post by betashop » Sun, Oct 31, 2010, 12:44 PM UTC

Looking for the best light-weight bug tracking tool, more robust than TRAC?

Re: Ask HN: Best light-weight bug tracking tool, more robust than TRAC?

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Post by st3fan » Sun, Oct 31, 2010, 1:03 PM UTC

I am going to suggest JIRA. I think it is pretty lightweight. You can either run it with the built-in database or let it talk to MySQL or PostgreSQL. It runs without the use of an app server. Just unzip and run.

http://atlassian.com/starter/

Re: Ask HN: Best light-weight bug tracking tool, more robust than TRAC?

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Post by betashop » Sun, Oct 31, 2010, 1:04 PM UTC

Anyone have experience with fogbugz?

Re: Ask HN: Best light-weight bug tracking tool, more robust than TRAC?

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Post by thirsteh » Sun, Oct 31, 2010, 1:33 PM UTC

Redmine is awesome: http://www.redmine.org/

Re: Ask HN: Best light-weight bug tracking tool, more robust than TRAC?

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Post by kennu » Sun, Oct 31, 2010, 1:35 PM UTC

thirsteh wrote: post #4

Redmine is awesome: http://www.redmine.org/

I agree, Redmine is nice and simple yet handles a lot of project management stuff if needed.

Re: Ask HN: Best light-weight bug tracking tool, more robust than TRAC?

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Post by JunkDNA » Sun, Oct 31, 2010, 1:37 PM UTC

I absolutely love Fogbugz. I find Jira to be a bloated, complex mess. I've also used Trac and Bugzilla, both were clunky and lacking in creature comforts.

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Post by olsonjeffery » Sun, Oct 31, 2010, 2:33 PM UTC

thirsteh wrote: post #4

Redmine is awesome: http://www.redmine.org/

+1 for Redmine. The windows story is a lot better, too (Apache on windows = suck). Multi-project/repo out of the box with no kludgey plugins. Custom workflow is configurable through the web interface vs. text config.. in fact, MUCH more of Redmine's config is exposed via the web interface vs text files (pretty much source control binaries, email and database provider/location is the only stuff you need to configure via config file ootb).

Really, Redmine is very similar, in my opinion to Trac. But I think it benefits from hindsight and doesn't carry any of the historical implementation limitations/baggage of Trac.

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Post by olsonjeffery » Sun, Oct 31, 2010, 2:38 PM UTC

betashop wrote: post #3

Anyone have experience with fogbugz?

This SO question does a pretty good job of running down my opinions on Fogbugz (used it once at a former client, wasn't really overwhelmed).

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14293/are-there-any-unhap...

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Post by nuriaion » Sun, Oct 31, 2010, 2:39 PM UTC

We use Lighthouse http://lighthouseapp.com/ We needed a simple tool which can also be used by people who have minimal computer knowledge...

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Post by thijsc » Sun, Oct 31, 2010, 2:48 PM UTC

We use Pivotal Tracker to manage all our development projects. It's not only a bugtracker, but extremely usefull if you have any kind of agile process.