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 Loic » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 8:12 AM UTC

We use Indefero http://www.indefero.net It is both offered as free software (GPL) and you have hosting options. A bit like WordPress.

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

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Post by antimatter » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 8:31 AM UTC

Lighthouse along with github's service hook has been great for me so far on a personal project.

On a related note, why can't we have public bug tracking on a private repo on github? This was the primary reason I went with Lighthouse.

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

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Post by clawoo » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 8:34 AM UTC

snowwindwaves wrote: post #33

redmine users may be interested in the recent fork: http://www.chiliproject.org the forking devs are going to be comitting some more radical changes it seems

Looking forward to that. In the meanwhile I find Redmine absolutely wonderful after I've configured it after our needs and process.

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

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Post by barrydahlberg » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 8:54 AM UTC

FogBugz with some clients depending on size, timeframe, etc. Nothing other than email with others.

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

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Post by tmachinecharmer » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 9:11 AM UTC

ClearQuest along with ClearCase for version control.

NOTE: I ""SUPER-HATE"" it. But I am helpless. :(

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

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Post by alexfarran » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 9:18 AM UTC

john61 wrote: post #28

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

Me too. Org mode works very well as a personal bug/task tracker but I don't know how I'd use it for collaborative work.

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

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Post by kilian » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 9:19 AM UTC

a plain text TODO file within the repository of each project, together with a plain text TODO file in my dropbox that gets synced everywhere. Works very well.

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

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Post by TillE » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 9:35 AM UTC

kilian wrote: post #47

a plain text TODO file within the repository of each project, together with a plain text TODO file in my dropbox that gets synced everywhere. Works very well.

I really like this kind of solution for smaller projects, where a proper bug tracker is excessive overhead. Keep everything in the repo and it's much simpler to maintain.

Do you have a formal-ish system for this? Notice issue -> TODO -> write unit test -> fix issue -> cut + paste to ChangeLog?

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

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Post by TeMPOraL » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 9:35 AM UTC

For my small projects, plain-text OrgMode file most of the time is sufficient ;). At work I used Redmine, and I find it to be a really nice tool.

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

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Post by kilian » Tue, Feb 22, 2011, 9:44 AM UTC

TillE wrote: post #48

kilian wrote: post #47

a plain text TODO file within the repository of each project, together with a plain text TODO file in my dropbox that gets synced everywhere. Works very well.

I really like this kind of solution for smaller projects, where a proper bug tracker is excessive overhead. Keep everything in the repo and it's much simpler to maintain. Do you have a formal-ish system for this? Notice issue -> TODO -> write unit test -> fix issue -> cut + paste to ChangeLog?

We work in a 3 person team max, and run a project management tool/CRM next to it (apollo) so there is no need to do communication via special protocols. We tried a bunch of them and it just doesn't work for small teams. We live in GIT anyway, so a todo.txt is a really good solution.

It's mostly: email to say bugs need fixing -> bugs get fixed -> fix gets committed and the bug removed from the todo -> email back that it's fixed.

It mostly concerns visual (html/css/templating) bugs or small js bugs that don't have unit tests/