From: Kristofer Goss <krsgoss@...>
Date: 2005-05-03T23:22:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Bug Tracker

You could also look at FogBugz.  Its pretty affordable, and has
features geared towards customer facing tasks like forums, defect
reporting, etc.  It also runs on both Unix and Windows.  BugTrack
seems to have drawn some inspiration from it as well IMHO.

-Kris

On 5/3/05, Tom Copeland <tom@infoether.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 22:44 +0900, Andy Stone wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > We've been looking for an alternative bug tracking system.  We were
> > using Bugzilla, for a long time, but when we opened it up for client
> > entries we found the interface non-geek friendly.  So, we went to
> > Mantis which is ok, but we had to write some additional modules to get
> > our base requirements (i.e.  LDAP authentication).  We never fell in
> > love with the features of Mantis and missed some of the capabilities
> > of Bugzilla.  So, after looking around for a while the CTO asked if I
> > would like to write one using Ruby/Rails.  I should also mention that
> > this will be open-sourced.  Has anyone started such a project that I
> > may be able to help with?  I will be writing one regardless, just
> > thought it would be better to ask the group and combine forces rather
> > than to split up the effort.
> 
> There's BugTrack:
> 
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/bugtrack/
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Tom
> 
>