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Re: Ask YC: Your bug tracker

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Post by joshwa »

nostrademons wrote: post #5

I've used Bugzilla, Mantis, JIRA, Netbeans' bug tracker, and FogBugz and found that they all basically suck. So I'm just going to give you a list of features that I'd like to see: 1.) A clean & simple UI. Reporters should just have a text field to enter the bug description and a way to attach screenshots/tracebacks/logfiles/tests/patches. All the priority/component/version/milestone/assignee stuff should be filled in…

fyi JIRA runs a couple thousand per server, not per seat.

JIRA covers 1(via configuration), 3, 5, 6, 7. Possibly 2 and 4 via plugins.

No affiliation with Atlassian, just a (mostly) happy customer.

Re: Ask YC: Your bug tracker

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Post by joshwa »

sbraford wrote: post #20
foodawg wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm going to second Trac. I'm using it primarily because of its easy integration with Subversion.

Trac is sweet but is simply a royal pain to setup. Anyone offer an outsourced, hosted version of Trac? =)

google "trac hosting".

I use assembla.com.

Re: Ask YC: Your bug tracker

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Post by gaborcselle »

Here at Xobni, we were first using Retrospectiva: http://retrospectiva.org/. Pretty UI, fast, Rails-based, simple to use and tweak. Free.

We later switched to Jira, which is expensive but powerful and a bit cluttered. Jira actually charges a flat price, not per seat as nostrademons suggests.

Re: Ask YC: Your bug tracker

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Post by jgrahamc »

foodawg wrote: post #8
emmett wrote: post #2

We use Trac at Justin.tv. The only thing that really bothers me is that it's kind of slow - up to 2 seconds to load a page. Other than that, it seems "good enough", but I'm sure there are advances to be made that I've never thought of.

I'm going to second Trac. I'm using it primarily because of its easy integration with Subversion.

Me too. Trac is nice if you are using Subversion.

John.

Re: Ask YC: Your bug tracker

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Post by ced »

I've never used one. Much like version control, I've never felt the need for it. If you have a team of 2-4 coders, and aren't preparing the next version of Firefox, why aren't text files/emails sufficient?

Re: Ask YC: Your bug tracker

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Post by almost »

ced wrote: post #26

I've never used one. Much like version control, I've never felt the need for it. If you have a team of 2-4 coders, and aren't preparing the next version of Firefox, why aren't text files/emails sufficient?

A team of 4 coders, WITHOUT version control?? Oh dear...

Re: Ask YC: Your bug tracker

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Post by brl »

I use trac which is integrated into my IDE (Eclipse) with a task management plugin called Mylyn. It's free and it does everything I need to stay organized with the other 6 developers on my team.

What problem are you solving again?

Re: Ask YC: Your bug tracker

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Post by ced »

almost wrote: post #27
ced wrote: post #26

I've never used one. Much like version control, I've never felt the need for it. If you have a team of 2-4 coders, and aren't preparing the next version of Firefox, why aren't text files/emails sufficient?

A team of 4 coders, WITHOUT version control?? Oh dear...

He, I was just saying. I've always coded alone, or with only one other person. And that person was using my code as a library. I figured that working like this would scale, modular and bottom-up. Maybe not.

(besides, isn't VC a relatively new proposition? I'd be surprised if PG and co. used it for Viaweb)

Let's leave version control aside. Could someone spell out why bug tracking is so great? Thanks.

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