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Bugzilla and its sufficient.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
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I like the Bugzilla icons. HOnestly, it looks like one of the better ones, but looks possibly difficult to configure. But maybe they're all difficult to configure. 
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Not too difficult. There are some good tutorials to do this. Might take you a couple of hours (2 to 4) creating a bugzilla server on linux.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
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I've installed a bugzilla server and what the tutorials are lacking is things relating to the webserver part... I used apache2 and I had to first enable the website on the webserver (not in the tutorials) before it worked. If you can see apache2 start (index) page from your web browser, it tells you on there how to do it.
Hope you find success (I almost gave up).
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
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Previously Rally, now ClearQuest, moving to Jira in near future.
Marin
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Numerous people are moving to JIRA. I've used it and it feels quite bloated to me.
I want something simple that reads my simple mind and makes my bug tracking simple.
Good luck with the transition.
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Long ago, we used something called Perfect Tracker.
It had a web interface, with a custom search facility that was vulnerable to SQL injection attacks.
Turned out to be its most useful feature...
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Staffan Bruun wrote: vulnerable to SQL injection attacks
Bug tracking software with the bugs already in it.
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Did you try Excel Online ?
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In one way I hope you are joking.
In another way -- since my QA people use nothing except outlook to report bugs -- I think you are on to a simple idea that really could work.
I'm stuck in an endless looping paradox.
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In the last year I've used Teamforge and Redmine. In the past I've also used irRational Clearquest  , SharePoint (worked great as a simple bug list, especially since SP was familiar to our non-technical users), and (many years ago) Visual Intercept. Currently IT is soliciting interest in how many teams would be interested in replacing TeamForge with JIRA. Although they're currently calling it "voluntary" I expect that within a year they'll decide it'd be cheaper to shut down teamforge than to pay licensing fees for two trackers and force everyone else to switch as well.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Our change request system (bugs, enhancements, new functionality) is built into the application (client/server, .NET, SQL Server). Users can request a change from within the application and it then goes through a management/development process. Works great for us.
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We use mantis. It's not amazing, but it works.
We know PHP and have modified the workflow (shocked it is not data driven to configure).
But after customizing it and using it since it was Beta, it is kind of second nature.
Our applications allow the end user to email in issues with/logs if they have crashes or problems.
We had to put a simple script on the server to pull them into mantis.
I agree. They all have drawbacks. We use a process where we RESOLVE things, and then
the clients CLOSE them (okay, we close them during an interactive meeting with the Clients,
as they confirm the resolved issue is published).
We use it for 3 reasons:
1) Visibility/Planning
2) Communication/Process
3) EOM and EOY Summaries. Very cool to to show 70% of annual effort was on New Features!
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Thanks for the info.
I had stumbled upon Mantis also and thought it looked relatively decent.
Then I noticed that it is implemented in PHP. 'nuff said. 
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We use Mantis company-wide. IMO it is adequate.
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
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Thanks. Mantis was one I stumbled upon and was taking a look at. Then I saw it was PHP. 'nuff said.
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We use TFS for story management, defect tracking, source control and continuous integration. A one-stop shop that meets all our needs. IMHO, it works well. Very well.
/ravi
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Very good to hear someone say they have an effective system in place.
We'll just keep emailing our bugs around. 
Manager: "Why does this crash occur in production?"
Dev: "Oh, I guess I missed the email with that bug."
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built my own a few years back to allow others to send me bug fixes, and feature requests. They can view the status on their own machines.
The program does what it's good at; I've felt tempted to extend it further but can't justify the time (yet )
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I order of the most I like to the ones I hate:
1- Trac: you can host it, you can add you plugins, it has wiki, there are hosted sites that can give you one repository, but can look old compared to today social media, but dude you don't want facebook if you are working.
2- Jira: could be better, have some features that I hate and consider useless. can be hosted or bought as a service. You can handle a lot of projects with this, have integration with all they products to give more services (Confluense...)
3- TFS: very good if you have a good admin working over it. The integration with VS is wonderful.
4- Spiceworks: a lower version of Jira, we ate it cause gave us a lot of problems.
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Great info. Thanks for the feed back. I think a lot of the difficulties with all of these systems is just the learning curve/ setup curve for getting everything set the way you want to use them.
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