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

Mantis http://www.mantisbt.org/ works very well for us. Easy to use and to customize.

+1 for redmine. Had it installed on Windows 2003 server and used its superb built in migration tools to go from mantisbt. Used it for about 18months and its actively maintained. Great for multiple projects and provides a simple UI. Its integration scripts with Subversion, GIT etc are also excellent.

On demand (in the cloud) option is IMO nicer for startup teams.

Anything that ties into GitHub well? We just switched from SVN+Trac to GitHub. Considering still using Trac but wondering if any good alternatives exist.

I would like to suggest www.groupsense.com it is a bug tracking tool with social features. So you can follow bugs / people / projects.

So for e.g. You can follow a particular bug that you are interested in. Or you may follow a particular user who might have filled interesting bugs in the past.

You get an activity stream from the bugs/people/projects that you are following.

I am one of the co-founders so take it with a grain of salt.

I would be happy to hand hold you to implement this and add features if you need them.

Send me an email at vidushi@groupsense.com I promise you it is a new software but we have been using it internally for over a year it is stable and you will love it when in 15 seconds everyday you will be able to look at your activity stream and exactly know what is happening.