QA & Bugtracking

QA & Bugtracking

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10053r
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QA & Bugtracking

Post by 10053r »

Question for SY:

What are you using for bugtracking?

I have a nice custom built bugtracking web app I would be willing to let Spring use, as well as the server on which to host it. It has lots of great features for keeping track of bugs and feature requests, making comments on each bug, assigning bugs and features to each developer, etc., but it isn't so complicated that no one will use it. I am also in the process of porting it to Zope, in preparation for releasing open source.

Alternatively, sourceforge.net has good stuff for this as well.
Dwarden
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Post by Dwarden »

yah, like http://www.mantisbt.org/

opensource of course
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JeeZ
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Post by JeeZ »

Most bugs so far has been handled directly over IRC or through private parts of this forum. I think Fnordia set up Bugzilla also...I don't know if it has been used though.

We need some way of handling incoming bug reports from the "public", some kind of filter. If anyone can report bugs, the system will be overflowed quickly. A good bug tracking system can of course handle this.

The public bug report form must have mandatory fields etc for system information and so on. Perhaps some autodetecting of system information could be used.
JeeZ
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Post by JeeZ »

One more thing, it should not only be possible to report bugs. It must also be possible to submit feature requests, change requests and stuff like that.
10053r
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Post by 10053r »

My opinion is that Bugzilla is massive overkill for most projects, but this project might get that big.

Let me know if you want to try out our bug tracker software, which is called Bug Hunt. It is simple and good. Bug trackers have to be simple, or people wont use them.

This would not be for random people to submit bugs. Rather, it lets you collate your to-dos into one place. Someone on the team could sumbit bugs if they thought they were real bugs. End users are never organized enough to submit bugs directly to the bugtracker anyway, in general.
el_muchacho
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Post by el_muchacho »

Mantis is quite good and should suit this project quite well, I think.

Another tool I use for project and team management at work, and I really like it very much, is dotproject. http://www.dotproject.net
renrutal
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Post by renrutal »

Mantis does have a nice look! Dunno about the rest but it sounds fitting, more than bugzilla does(and bugzilla is indeed an overkill).

dotproject just seems out of context for something like Spring.
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