[lug] Bug tracking systems

[Zan Lynx]

Ted Logan wrote:
> At work, my small software group has decided to upgrade our bug
> tracking system from a shared spreadsheet to something a bit more
> robust. I have no actual experience using bug tracking systems, so I'm
> not really sure what to look for or which ones are good.
>
> Bugzilla is the biggest name in open source bug tracking, but not the
> only one; a quick survey of Freshmeat's bug tracking category
> (http://freshmeat.net/browse/846/) gives plenty of projects. What
> experience have BLUGers had with bug tracking software? Any positive
> (or negative) recomendations?
>   

We use Mantis[1] at eSoft.  It works very well for us, although we did
hack the code a bit.  Not much.  It's web-based and uses PHP and MySQL.

[1] http://www.mantisbt.org/