- Antoine Nguyen <ngu.antoine@gmail.com>:
I started thinking that perhaps I should move my TODO list to a bug tracker. But because of reasons I've explained a few times before, I don't want a full blown public bug tracking system. The requirements for it are:
I am the only person who can add new bugs. Everyone else reports bugs/requests to this mailing list as before. (Well, I guess Stephan could use this as well if he wants to.)
Everyone can comment existing bugs.
Dovecot mailing list integration: Commenting a bug sends a mail to the mailing list. Replies to those comments go back to bug tracker (probably based on some [#1234] tag in subject). I would have the option of adding a comment that doesn't go to the mailing list (= adding some internal comment that nobody else cares about). Notifications about new bugs won't go to the mailing list (most likely it was created due to a recent mailing list post).
So the main difference to how things work now is that people would be able to easily browse existing bugs and add comments to them. I would add bugs there only when I'm not planning on fixing them within a few days. I wouldn't add each and every feature request there, only the things that I'm actually interested in developing. So the idea would be to actually get the bug tracker emptied at some point, not to be a graveyard of unimportant feature requests that about 1-2 people in the world would want.
So, any suggestions for what software could do these things? I think Request Tracker has those features, but it's not really the nicest/prettiest thing.
Maybe Redmine ? (http://www.redmine.org/
It's more than just a bug tracker but I think it answers your needs.
+1
We moved from trac to redmine about a year ago and still are very happy about it. Our non-technical customers can deal with it well. Redmine allows to hide projects and it knows the concept of sub-projects. It's versatile in terms of repositories (mercurial supported) and ticket handling is fine too.
Sometimes I miss a more comfortable wiki editor, but that's a minor tradeoff.
p@rick
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