[lug] Bug tracking systems

[Collins Richey]

On 1/3/06, Craig Talbert <Talbert at colorado.edu> wrote:
> Quoting Ted Logan <ted.logan at gmail.com>:
>
> > 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?
>
> Depending on what you're doing Bugzilla can be overkill.  For my CS senior
> project (rprn.org) we used Mantis:
>
> http://www.mantisbt.org/
>
> It was simple, and did what it needed to do well.
>
> - Craig
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FWIW, Engineers at Echostar use [a highly customized version of ]
Mantis for controlling everything in the Bug Report -> change request
assignment -> local fix -> regression test version -> production
release continuum. It is very easy to customize.

--
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
      smart enough to debug it.
             -Brian Kernighan