Mar 082005
No. I should. Perhaps I should buy Joel’s latest book and read it.
Most of the time when developping I can remember what I was working on, or what bugs bugged me. But sometimes solving one bug takes a lot of time, or there’s a weekend, or something else that takes the attention from developping, I just forget about the smaller bugs. Tracking them in a database is wise.
Does anybody have suggestions? Preferably ones that are free? I’ve looked at Mantis in the past, but never got so far to actually using it. Open Source is not mandatory, but a pre. Other than that, it should run on Windows XP + Apache2.
We are testing Gemini for the project here. The cost is good for small teams (FREE). The system from an initial view looks good. Not a lot of bells and whistles. I will post a blog entry on my blog soon after we get a few weeks to try it out.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting, Chris, but…
Gemini looks great, but as I said: the software needs to run on Apache2. I’m not sure how my milage will vary by running it via mod_aspdotnet. Other than that: the free license prohibits the use on an internet facing server. I was planning on making it visible to clients, so….
I will look into the software anyway, and of course I am curious to learn about your experiences with Gemini.
My apologies. I missed the Apache2 part. So far I like Gemini. Hope Mantis works well for you.
That’s okay. Mantis works like a charm, but its GUI is nothing like Gemini.
I also looked at Bugzilla, but with all perl-applications it up to the end-user to get all the relevant extensions, which in this case are numerous. That’s what I don’t like about perl, so I deleted the whole thing.
When you have IIS, Axosoft’s Ontime2005 is a nice product as well. Free for single-user installations, very affordable ($149 per user for >= 2 users) and scalable (desktop version, webversion, enterprise/portal version and SDK for custom work).
Also take a look at FogBUGZ. Not the cheapest but a respected web based bug tracking system. It runs in Win, MacOS and Unix/Linux. runs on apache2 for Unix/Linux but I do not know about Win and apache2.
Heard a lot of good things about FogBUGZ, and what I can see on the website: very sexy, good features, and at $99 per user it is not that expensive.