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Comment by mbreese

15 hours ago

Trac was great.

But, my first issue tracker was bugzilla. Setting that up was a bit of a pain, and it didn’t integrate well with anything, but it was very satisfying to see “Zarro Boogs”.

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theshrike79  42 minutes ago

Bugzilla was too big/complex for pretty much every company I ever worked in :D

Trac was perfection. Self-hosted and just the right amount of features.

bombcar  14 hours ago

Bugzilla was relatively painless to setup but it already had a bit of the Jira going on - in that it had SO MANY OPTIONS!

I remember being interested in MantisBT and a few others (Launchpad for BZR?) mainly because it seemed they made a bunch of decisions for me.

  • mbreese  13 hours ago

    It's a bit fuzzy, but what I remember was getting it running was painless -- but there was a ton of effort in getting it configured.

    In retrospect, it was probably the flexibility of projects like Bugzilla that heralded the "opinionated" approaches to software that followed. In many ways software also follows the patterns of the language they are written in . Bugzilla was written in Perl, so of course there is more than one way to do anything.

    I had forgotten about Mantis, but that was the first tracker that the non-programmers in our group were comfortable using. It is a bit funny how quickly we all migrated to Github as a larger community as it became the default for just about everything.