Re: Bug reporting system

An existing widespread open-source Bug-Tracking System is Bugzilla, which has proven its merits for the Mozilla project (www.mozilla.org), Redhat, Loki software, Linux-Mandrake, and many more. For details, see: http://www.bugzilla.org/about.html From this page: ---8<--- Bugzilla has matured immensely, and now boasts many advanced features. These include: - integrated, product-based granular security schema - inter-bug dependencies and dependency graphing - advanced reporting capabilities - a robust, stable RDBMS back-end - extensive configurability - a very well-understood and well-thought-out natural bug resolution protocol - email, XML, console, and HTTP APIs - available integration with automated software configuration management systems, including Perforce and CVS (through the Bugzilla - email interface and checkin/checkout scripts) - too many more features to list ---8<--- Gr, Freddy Vulto Martin Jansen <mail@martin-jansen.de> wrote in message news:php.pear.webmaster-12@news.php.net... > Hi, > > a few weeks ago I volunteered for setting up a bug reporting system > for the PEAR site. Since I had not much time to investigate into this > topic, I right now only looked for existing systems: > > The guys on jitterbug@lists.php.net told me that their system (the new > bug reporting system for http://php.net/bugs.php) is not ready > for > production use yet, but they pointed me to mantis > (http://mantisbt.sourceforge.net/). > > Now I would like to hear your opinion: Should we wait until the > new system on php.net is set up, should we use the existing system > (whose code looks very crapy) or should we use an existing open source > system like mantis? > > - Martin > >