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

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

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Post by acgourley » Sun, Oct 31, 2010, 5:25 PM UTC

thijsc wrote: post #10

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.

For low volume projects it could be a good bug tracker, too. And for those that don't know, its web based and they will host it for you for free.

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

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Post by grandalf » Sun, Oct 31, 2010, 5:25 PM UTC

I like retrospectiva:

http://retrospectiva.org/overview

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

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Post by wnoise » Sun, Oct 31, 2010, 6:11 PM UTC

Other than text files, I've only used bugzilla, which is decidedly not "light-weight". How does trac fail to be "robust"? I've not seen any complaints about it scribbling all over its database.

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

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Post by FraaJad » Sun, Oct 31, 2010, 6:17 PM UTC

Fossil SCM: http://fossil-scm.org/

Fossil is a DVCS + Wiki + Bug tracking, though you can choose not to use the DVCS part..

* Light-weight? yes. it's just a single executable * Robust? maybe. Projects using Fossil: SQLite, Mongrel2 etc.

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

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Post by jashmenn » Sun, Oct 31, 2010, 6:21 PM UTC

ditz: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/148367

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

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Post by xal » Sun, Oct 31, 2010, 7:11 PM UTC

jokull wrote: post #15

GitHub has just enough issue tracking tools for my needs.

Totally agreed, don't underestimate the issue tracker build into github, it's superb.

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

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Post by dabeeeenster » Sun, Oct 31, 2010, 7:13 PM UTC

grandalf wrote: post #22

I like retrospectiva: http://retrospectiva.org/overview

Looks nice. Can you create tickets by email?

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

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Post by tommorris » Sun, Oct 31, 2010, 7:30 PM UTC

bkrausz wrote: post #18

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.

If you want something more lightweight than Trac, why not just use the Issues feature in GitHub.

It seems to me the choices are:

1. ditz (command-line based version tracker that keeps data in your version control repo - plays well with DVCSes like Git/Mercurial)

2. whatever comes by default with your repo hosting (Github or BitBucket or Google Code for open source SVN)

3. hosted Trac, Redmine or Bugzilla

For client work, I'm using Redmine, although I'm thinking of switching to ditz (or something similar) to make my life simpler.

For personal projects, I either use TODO.txt or the repo-provided bug tracker.

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

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Post by benmccann » Sun, Oct 31, 2010, 7:35 PM UTC

siddhant wrote: post #11

I'd also recommend Pivotal Tracker. Its simple, neat, and gets the work done.

I hate Pivotal Tracker. I've been forced to use it on a few projects and found it way too hard to use. E.g. it never shows what you're working on by default and you have to open up a special window for it. And you can't just mark something as done - you have to move it through a whole set of crazy states like accepted and delivered. I'd much rather use any other bug tracker or something simple like a spreadsheet.

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

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Post by aeontech » Sun, Oct 31, 2010, 7:41 PM UTC

thijsc wrote: post #10

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.

It also has an API to integrate with standalone bugtrackers like Trac/Jira as well as Github.