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Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 8:45 pm

We have talked about this before, but now that I'm further into the project, it's going to be time soon to have an official bug tracking system for eMobius and Zeus.

Can people (re)post their links and recommendations? I know the Mozilla system was one that was recommended, but any personal experience would be useful.

I'm not looking for something *really* fancy here. Just a basic system that would let users post bug reports or feature suggestions into a system via the web, and then would allow me to track and modify status of items easily from here.

Preferably it would support Linux and be written in PHP and use MySQL for portability.

Ease of use and ease of setup are primary importance. Low cost would also be preferable, but I'm willing to pay for something good as long as there is a free trial so I can see if it meets my needs.

Might as well get this set up early so I don't run into the issue I had with zMUD of porting an existing system. I *could* use the existing system that I use for zMUD, but with a project this much larger and more public, a web-interface for bug reports will probably be really helpful in the future.

Thanks for your suggestions on this.

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 11:48 pm

I'm using JIRA. It is a Java based bug tracking system. It can hookup with a CVS repository, so that you can assign bugs to code modules.

My copy of JIRA is running on Windows 2003 using a SQL Server 2000 backend. It can use several different server backends. The URL is http://www.atlassian.com/c/jira/10151 This is on the high end price-wise. I have a copy running at http://bugtrack.wheelmud.org if you want to take a look, before trying a copy yourself. There's a guest account that you can use to do stuff with. Use guest/guest to login.

Another favorite of mine is OnTime by AxoSoft. Their URL is http://www.axosoft.com/

There's also FogBugz by FogCreek. This is the software company of the guy that runs JoelOnSoftware. The link to his product is http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBUGZ/index.html

I've tried a lot more, but these 3 have stood out in my bug tracking meanderings. Jira and FogBugz can run on Linux and can use MySQL as their database backend.

Hope that helps!

Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2004 3:32 am

I just ran across FlySpray at http://flyspray.rocks.cc/ This one runs PHP and MySQL and doesn't look amateurish like other efforts I've seen.

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MantisBT at http://www.mantisbt.org/ is a free Sourceforge project that uses PHP and MySQL.