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Ask HN: Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team?

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Hey everyone, My cofounder and I have been using a google doc + lots of dropbox documents to keep track of to-dos, feature roadmap, and bugs, but it's gotten to the point where we do need a real bug tracking system since our google doc spreadsheets are just a mess to sort through.

What's a good, lightweight bug tracking system for a small team (Thanks

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#3

Post-its on a whiteboard.

You probably meant this as a joke, but I have a friend who is hyper-organized with all of her to-dos on a whiteboard... different sections are different things/different priority levels. Maybe we will hack together a Wii whiteboard Johnny Chung Lee style and use virtual post-its! (http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/)

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Try Pivotal Tracker. It's more geared for todos / feature stuff (and does it really well), but you can use it for bugs, too. If you're tracking more than 50 or so bugs, I could see wanting to use something else, though.

Thanks for the suggestion. I just had a funny experience - went there to register... said that my email was already registered... turns out I made an account on pivotal a while back but never used it haha. Will give it a shot. Thanks!

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How lightweight are you talking? Are you looking for a hosted tool (like fogbugz) or are you definitely going to manage/host it yourself?

I've been using Jira, and there's a $10 version for small groups.

Whatever you chose, make sure of one thing: every tracked bug or task has a unique URL.

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Trac is great and plugs in really easily to SVN. It's at least worth playing around with since so many open source projects use it.

I wrote a Django middleware that uses Trac's xmlrpc plugin to automatically create Trac tickets for errors. I'm sure it's just as simple to do for whatever you're using.

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Trac is great and plugs in really easily to SVN. It's at least worth playing around with since so many open source projects use it. I wrote a Django middleware that uses Trac's xmlrpc plugin to automatically create Trac tickets for errors. I'm sure it's just as simple to do for whatever you're using.

I've used trac, bugzilla, and custom-rolled solutions and have found trac the be the best. It's missing some features (silly things like renaming a user...) but overall it's enough for most needs, and much simpler than bugzilla is.

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Trac is great and plugs in really easily to SVN. It's at least worth playing around with since so many open source projects use it. I wrote a Django middleware that uses Trac's xmlrpc plugin to automatically create Trac tickets for errors. I'm sure it's just as simple to do for whatever you're using.

Hmm, thanks thomaspaine, I think we're going to go with Trac since we're currently using SVN... I'm considering a move to git since I've really enjoyed using that for another current project, but it looks like there's hooks for git and trac as well.

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post #4

Try Pivotal Tracker. It's more geared for todos / feature stuff (and does it really well), but you can use it for bugs, too. If you're tracking more than 50 or so bugs, I could see wanting to use something else, though.

Thanks for the suggestion. I just had a funny experience - went there to register... said that my email was already registered... turns out I made an account on pivotal a while back but never used it haha. Will give it a shot. Thanks!

Hmm I don't like the interface - drag and drop is kind of clunky for these purposes
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