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Poll: What's your favorite bug tracker?

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Re: Poll: What's your favorite bug tracker?

#12
I'm surprised GitHub is by far #1. I wonder if it's familiarity rather than preference. Github's minimal approach of using labels for everything is like Gmail's tags over folders.

I wish GitHub had a "This bug affects me" or +1 button so the comment history stays clean of "me too" responses.

Re: Poll: What's your favorite bug tracker?

#13
We use redmine internally, but I find myself preferring Github for issues. The interface is much simpler and easier to use. Redmine, on the other hand has 10-15 fields for every issue. It may help with very large projects but most of it is never used for small-sized projects.

Re: Poll: What's your favorite bug tracker?

#14
Piece of paper taped to side of monitor, with badly written reference to a page in someone else's daybook, including cryptic calculations that are actually not at all related and enough circular rings from my tea mug to create a sort of mutant Olympics logo.

Re: Poll: What's your favorite bug tracker?

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post #12

I'm surprised GitHub is by far #1. I wonder if it's familiarity rather than preference. Github's minimal approach of using labels for everything is like Gmail's tags over folders. I wish GitHub had a "This bug affects me" or +1 button so the comment history stays clean of "me too" responses.

I also feel such a questionaire is mostly driven by experience not by preference. Not many people learn to know more then 2 or 3 trackers in their career.

Re: Poll: What's your favorite bug tracker?

#19
Other. Write code without bugs.

(I say this in jest, but only a little.) Think about it...

I know so many programmers who get lazy because they have such good debugging tools (Let me just slam something out there and let the debugger catch it.) I hate this.

If we developers would slow down and think a little more about what we're building, we may find a dramatically decreased need for debugging.

Variable local or global? Right variable name? Should that be a function? How much am I repeating myself? How should the data be structured for its intended uses? What's the best way to handle recursion? Where might memory leak? Where's the best place to do this? Which is the best technology for this need? And most of all: Will the next programmer be able to read this and tell what it's doing before they break it?

Slow down. Plan more. Think deeper. Debug less.

Re: Poll: What's your favorite bug tracker?

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post #6
post #2

Jira.

Surprised its not on there. FWIW here's a list of major issue trackers from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_issue-tracking_sy... .

Any guesses as to how Jira got left off? In my exp it's one of the most popular issue trackers & integrates with other PM tools.
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