Poll: What do you use to track your bugs? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: What do you use to track your bugs?

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Post by mmoulton » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 5:57 AM UTC

We primarily use the GreenHopper plugin to interact with JIRA. This allows us to both track new development and defects in an agile friendly way, without the need to maintain all the index cards.

Re: Poll: What do you use to track your bugs?

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Post by vyrotek » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 6:00 AM UTC

jesstaa wrote: post #6

Post-It notes and 'drop everything and fix it now.' If it's not important enough to fix now, then it's alright if we forget it.

I like the Post-It note strategy.

Especially when all the notes are on a public window/wall. This way everyone can see the 'queue' of stuff and is a good reminder to re-prioritize constantly.

Re: Poll: What do you use to track your bugs?

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Post by cowpewter » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 6:00 AM UTC

Grooveshark uses Bugzilla. There are things about it we all absolutely hate, but it does the job, which is more than I can say for anything else we've tried.

Re: Poll: What do you use to track your bugs?

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Post by haberman » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 6:01 AM UTC

Google Code -- I'm surprised it's not listed. I recently had to decide between GitHub's issue tracker (I'm already using GitHub for source code hosting) and Google Code, and almost everyone I could find that had an opinion said Google Code was much better.

Re: Poll: What do you use to track your bugs?

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Post by syaz1 » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 6:09 AM UTC

diziet wrote: post #10

"Stop doing everything and fix it" along with basecamp to-do lists for the other, non critical bugs.

Basecamp is awesome if a lot of people involved are non-technical. They tend to get dizzy looking at Jira/Trac.

Re: Poll: What do you use to track your bugs?

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Post by sigil » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 6:17 AM UTC

What? No RT?

Re: Poll: What do you use to track your bugs?

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Post by elviejo » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 6:18 AM UTC

mtrack

a clone of trac done in php With support for multiple projects. Mercurial and Subversion

http://mtrack.wezfurlong.org/

Re: Poll: What do you use to track your bugs?

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Post by john61 » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 6:29 AM UTC

Emacs http://orgmode.org/ in combination with http://mercurial.selenic.com/

Re: Poll: What do you use to track your bugs?

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Post by __david__ » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 6:34 AM UTC

So I've been using "ditz" on a few projects and I quite like it. It's about the most minimal bug tracker you can get, but I like that the bugs get checked into your scm, right along with the code. I also like that I don't need to launch a browser to add or edit bugs. It fits in beautifully with distributed VCSes like darcs or git.

Re: Poll: What do you use to track your bugs?

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Post by masonmark » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 6:40 AM UTC

YouTRACK--a keyboard-friendly fast fast FAST bug tracker from JetBrains (of IntelliJ fame).

http://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack

After I gave up the concept of tracking bugs and doing feature planning in the same app (sounds great but has never worked in practice), this tracker became my default for any projects where I have a say in the matter.

We moved from JIRA because administering a JIRA installation is practically a full-time job. Have also used Fogbugz, Redmine, Mantis, Bugzilla over the years, so that list is my main basis for comparison. I hate YouTRACK less than those.

Edit: I see they are now offering a free hosted version for the first half of 2011.