Bug #1

[ewx]

Since chiarkwiki is now dead, I need something to replace the DisOrder wishlist page. It's now an HTML page that only I can edit, but what I really want is a bug tracking system, both for wishlist items and real bugs.

I'd like to not run a whole BTS just for one project, so one of the development hosting services seems like the obvious answer. The ones I know of are:

• Sourceforge
• Savannah
• Launchpad
• Alioth

Right now I'd only be interested in bug tracking and closely related facilities, rather than somewhere to host source code or whatever. It's not completely impossible that other facilities might be useful in the future though.

So does anyone have either any suggestions beyond the above, or relevant experience of using them either as a developer or for the matter just as a user wanting to report a bug - which one would you choose and on what grounds?

Comments

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

We use Trac a fair bit internally at NASA. It basically gives you Wiki style documentation, bug tracking and a Subversion front-end, and is pretty easy to use.

Now that I think about it, I should set one up for myself on my own server...

[emperor]

Put it in Debian then use their BTS?

[daniel silverstone (from livejournal.com)]

Sourceforge is inflexible, slow and nasty. Savannah I have no experience of but would assume similar issues with. Alioth the same.

Launchpad is very proprietary, requires logins and lots of data to be entrusted to Canonical, but does seem to work.

There exists a BTS type system called 'cvstrac' which is packaged, simple and lightweight. I realise that suggesting this contravenes your requirement not to run a BTS for a single project, but CVSTrac might be the solution to sway you. Despite its name, CVSTrac supposedly supports CVS SVN and GIT.