Review of Issue Trackers
From Audacity Wiki
Current Status
- Audacity is now using Bugzilla for bugtracking.
- Here are some canned queries.
Contents
The Comparisons
This page was originally created to help us decide on a bugtracker.
- Wikipedias list of issue trackers
- Wikimedia developer's page of alternatives
from wikimedia developer digest
"Bugzilla is obnoxious and hard to use, but people are familiar with it. From what I've seen of Trac, I'm not a big fan of that either (although I haven't used it much). My favorite issue tracker packages as a user are Launchpad and Google Issues." Aryeh Gregor
Features of Note
- FogBugz allows direct integration of automatically sent crash reports.
- Most bug trackers have email integration. Most are web based.
- Debbugs (debians bug tracker) is built entirely around email. Its under-development web front end is written in python and Django.
- Ability to send confidential bugs (hidden form general view) about security risks.
Launchpad
- Integrates lists with a wiki, but in a fairly hard coded way.
- Separates 'blueprints' (new feature design and discussion) from bug issues.
- Federation of bug reports - can report and track bugs in libraries that you use, and in projects which use your code. (projects must be in Ubuntu).
Semi-closed source.
Bugzilla
- Written in Perl. Mozilla public license.
- Rather rigid in its structure though can add fields.
- Shareable searches.
Bugzilla + Wikipedia reporting
- This is a bugzilla reports module for wikipedia that promises more flexible formatting and presentation of reports than bugzilla offers. It allows reports to be embedded in a wiki page.
Google Code Hosting
- Ability to 'star' an issue to indicate interest/vote without adding a comment. Nice.
- Summary table view with click-to-expand.
Trac
- Written in Python. Modified BSD license.
- Has its own template system called Genshi
- Strong on project management features, e.g. timelines, roadmaps etc.
- Based around a wiki
- Easy to add custom fields to
- Lots of formats for data and lots of options for emails.
- Integrated with change logs.
Mantis
- Written in Php. GPL License.
- Categories to break issues into groups.
- Simple roadmap feature.
