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Re: Flyspray 0.9.8 released (why?)

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2005-10-30 17:00:56 CET

Jason Mills wrote:
> TortoiseSVN developers,
>
> Can I assume from proceeding email that Flyspray is used by TortoiseSVN
> as the issue tracking system?

Yes. It's here:
http://tortoisesvn.berlios.de/issues

> If so...
>
> At work we are looking for an issue tracking system. There are a lot of
> open source ones available, but most have not reached 1.0, or
> development seems to have stopped. Hence we are uncertain of there
> stability and future. Why was Flyspray chosen for the TortoiseSVN
> project? Would you recommend it over others, such as Scarab, codetrack,
> and bug genie? Any other comments.

We chose flyspray because it's written in PHP, uses MySql (which are
requirements for us, so we can install it on berlios.de and/or
sourceforge.net).
Other reasons:
- it's simple, has not zillions of features nobody ever
needs/understands/uses
- it doesn't need a masters degree to get it to run
- users can work with it immediately, no big learning curve like some
other issue trackers
- it's fast. Many operations are done without a complete reload of the
page (e.g. if you close a task, change something in a task, ... it won't
reload the whole page but simply show "task updated" at the bottom).
- it has enough user roles so that we can prevent users from creating
new issues on their own. That's why we had to get rid of the
issuetracker on tigris.org - people kept using the issuetracker to ask
questions (and most of those questions could be easily solved by reading
the docs).

btw: I've updated our issuetracker to 0.9.8 now.

Stefan

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