pcplantdb

["John Schinnerer" <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

> You need to go into one of the project. Try
>       https://sourceforge.net/projects/jep/
> another project I'm involved with. You should I hope see
> a tracker, a bugs database, a cvs repository and some other
> useful bits.

OK - didn't realize you were talking about sourceforge...
Took a look at the project above to see what the tracker is like.
I think it might be OK if it were only "we few, we lucky few..." putting stuff
into it.

However - I assume we'll be soliciting bug reports, feature requests and so on
from our development community and our user base, which will get bigger and
bigger as we go and will have wildly varying degrees of computer literacy (and
of just plain literacy).

So I would definitely want to use something that enforces considerably more
structure, especially on the input end of things.

I have taken a few quick looks at Bugzilla (bugzilla.org).
It appears to use and as much as possible enforce most 'best practices' for
issue tracking tools, based on my thus far cursory examination.
It appears highly configurable to suit our needs and can have multiple
'products' within one installation, which would be nice for separating back
end tracking from various front end projects (eventually :-) and so on.
There are a lot of major open source projects and others using it, including
mozilla, linux kernel, kde, gnome, apache, open office, several major linux
distros, IBM, Ximian, NASA, and others.
It is built with Perl and MySQL so hosting most anywhere (linux of course)
should not be a problem.

So far so good...there are some other options I will look at.

Again, any recommendations for *open source* issue trackers, please send 'em
my way.  Only if they're good, though!  I have already experienced (and been
forced to use) far more than enough junk issue trackers and bug databases for
this lifetime... :-p



John Schinnerer - MA, Whole Systems Design
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