Ask HN: Any recommendations for bug tracking software?

#1

Post by hvasishth » Sat, Dec 11, 2010, 11:38 PM UTC

I am working on some personal projects and want to start using a bug tracking software for them. I am looking for recommendations for a bug tracking system which is

- Free/Freemium

- Web based so that I don't have to worry about installing/maintaining it.

- Simple to use

Re: Ask HN: Any recommendations for bug tracking software?

#2

Post by steveklabnik » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 12:27 AM UTC

I host all of my projects on GitHub, so I just use their built in Issues system. For something a little more heavyweight, Lighthouse is a good option, too.

Re: Ask HN: Any recommendations for bug tracking software?

#3

Post by bobds » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 12:57 AM UTC

MantisBT is an easy to install one. It integrates with SVN, Git, DokuWiki and many more.

http://www.mantisbt.org/

I like that I can hook it up to my Github projects. Here's the how-to: http://leetcode.net/blog/2009/01/integrating-git-svn-with-ma...

Re: Ask HN: Any recommendations for bug tracking software?

#4

Post by greattypo » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 1:24 AM UTC

If it were just me, I would use the startup edition of FogBugz in a heartbeat: http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/StudentAndStartup.html

MantisBT is full featured but the interface is pretty clunky and dated (IMO). I found Bugzilla to be similar but a little better once I got the hang of it.

My company uses Mantis.

Re: Ask HN: Any recommendations for bug tracking software?

#5

Post by togasystems » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 1:28 AM UTC

Redmine works great if you got an old server kickn around

Re: Ask HN: Any recommendations for bug tracking software?

#6

Post by jhchen » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 1:31 AM UTC

The good news is there's plenty of good choices. There are many that do the job well enough that preference in the end is either personal or just what we happened to have the most experience with. Redmine, JIRA, Bugzilla and Trac are just a few popular ones I'd recommend checking out. All are free except JIRA costs $10 (one time) that they donate to charity.

Re: Ask HN: Any recommendations for bug tracking software?

#7

Post by pyronicide » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 1:38 AM UTC

I'd suggest not actually using a bug tracking system. They tend to be separate from actual planning and the fact that they're separate means that planning is harder.

Take a look at http://www.pivotaltracker.com/

The whole system is crazy simple/easy to use and it pretty much lets you do all your project management in one place.

Re: Ask HN: Any recommendations for bug tracking software?

#8

Post by heyjonboy » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 1:52 AM UTC

http://www.unfuddle.com

It's basically a hosted, prettied-up version of Trac, with hosted SVN and Git integrated. It's not as pretty or collaborative as GitHub, but the issue tracking is much beefier.

Re: Ask HN: Any recommendations for bug tracking software?

#9

Post by cmelbye » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 1:58 AM UTC

pyronicide wrote: post #7

I'd suggest not actually using a bug tracking system. They tend to be separate from actual planning and the fact that they're separate means that planning is harder. Take a look at http://www.pivotaltracker.com/ The whole system is crazy simple/easy to use and it pretty much lets you do all your project management in one place.

Pivotal Tracker is fantastic. Free, extremely easy to use, productive, and they just re-did their user interface.

Re: Ask HN: Any recommendations for bug tracking software?

#10

Post by endtime » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 2:20 AM UTC

I'm very happy with Redmine, and it's free. :) I do host it myself, which is really not very hard (my instance runs off a Ubuntu Server VM on my Windows work machine, and took about 30 mins to get running).