Bug tracking

[Paul Kienzle]

On Apr 9, 2007, at 7:29 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> I think this is a good time to start discussing what we can do about
> bug tracking for Octave.  Up until now, I've been happy to deal with
> bugs just by keeping a folder of messages sent to the address@hidden
> mailing list.  When a bug is fixed or I don't plan to fix it myself,
> I delete the message.  But then we don't really have a useful public
> record of bugs that have been reported bug not fixed.
>
> Do people on the list have any suggestions for good bug tracking
> software?  I'd like to be able to interact with it via email, but the
> archive of bugs should be accessible on the web.
>
> It seems that the Debian bug tracking system might have what we need.
> Is it easy to use the Debian bug tracking system outside of the
> Debiain project?  How easy/hard is it to setup and maintain?  Is there
> something better?

Here is the list given in the defect tracking survey:

  BugZilla
  IssueZilla
  Scarab
  Mantis
  JIRA
  GNATS
  Bug
  Trac
  RequestTracker
  Roundup
  Debian Bug Tracking System
  Other

When I looked a couple of years ago RequestTracker was the
closest to what I wanted.  I haven't looked lately.

        - Paul