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.
What about Mantis? --- Martin Rabl Am 11.04.2012 um 08:26 schrieb Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:> 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. >
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:26:20AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:> > 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. >I didn't see open source as a requirement, so then I would give a plug for Jira, which is the nicest/prettiest thing :-) And they provide free hosted solution: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/pricing Apache/ASF is a heavy jira user, in case you're not familiar with it: http://wiki.apache.org/general/ApacheJira https://issues.apache.org/jira/ -jf
Le 11 avril 2012 08:26, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> a ?crit :> 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. Antoine Modoboa developer (http://modoboa.org/)
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:26:20AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:> 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. >May be worth to take a look at http://www.thebuggenie.com/. Thomas -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20120411/8c9f093e/attachment-0004.bin>
I second that. New version 3.2 supports sub-projects, editions and components and is user-friendly. Cheers, Olivier> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:26:20AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > > 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. > > May be worth to take a look at http://www.thebuggenie.com/. > > Thomas >
On 2012-04-11 2:26 AM, Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:> Notifications about new bugs won't go to the mailing list (most > likely it was created due to a recent mailing list post).I actually would like to see these, and I imagine I'm not alone... If you'd prefer they don't go to the users list, maybe create a new 'notifications' (or maybe even a -dev) list that anyone could subscribe to to see these?> 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.+1 to Redmine. I only used it for a short time, but I liked it, and the fact that you can integrate it with git or mercurial is a big plus. Yes, it is a full blown bug tracker, but if, in the future, you add more developers (maybe you get some angel funding), you already have a full blown bug tracker in place, including the extras it comes with. -- Best regards, Charles