Re: [OT] defect tracker recommendations?

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:11:55AM -0400, Glanville, Jay wrote:
> - what DT you use now and in the past?

Roundup. http://roundup.sourceforge.net/

> - what you like / dislike about it?

Mainly its simplicity. All it does is track issues. It took 5 minutes to
install, allowing me to add issues right away. We've been using it for
about two months now.

It is _very_ easy to customize. Its written in python, although you
don't really need to know any to customize it. I added a difficulty
field to the DB yesterday and colorized our issue lists based on this in
about 20 minutes. This involved adding about three lines of python and
changing the web interface templates a bit.

It keeps track of all the changes that ever occured in the system. The
default schema is quite sane.

I did find some of the "detectors" installed by default annoying -- they
would change the status of the issue, e.g. from "resolved" to "chatting"
if you added a message to a resolved issue. But this was again trivial
to change.

> - would you recommend it to others?

Very much so.

> - what features does it not have that you feel you need?

It does not come built-in with a tool to aggregate statistics. But it
provides all the data, and a convenient way to access it, so I'll
probably add such a tool

> - does it work well with Subversion?

All it does is track issues. It has no interaction with subversion
(although it could be customized to have some). Although it does have a
certain elegant simplicity common with svn.

-- 
Stefanus Du Toit <sjdutoit@cgl.uwaterloo.ca>
  Computer Graphics Lab
  School of Computer Science
  University of Waterloo
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