Bug Tracking, Round II

I got a ton of suggestion to my Bug Tracking? question. As I mentioned, I don't want to use BugZilla, and JIRA is out of the immediate price range that I have in mind - I really want it to be free :-) And although anything without per-user cost is good, JIRA is expensive, although it certainly worth the price.

I tried Gemini, but I managed to hit two seperate bugs in the space of an hour, one of them a show stopper, and it didn't have an integration with Active Directory, which means that I need to handle more passowrd (bad thing in general). Leaving that aside for now, because I really liked the UI and it uses NHibernate.

I then started trying Trac, which was a bit hard to install on Windows, but I managed. The UI is really nice, and I love the SVN integration. It took me a couple of minutes to set it up with mod_python and Active Directory integration, so I don't need to remember yet another password. I'm not crazy about the command line interface to admin the project, but it has a reasonable CLI UI, so it is not that bad. I tried the web admin plugin, but it didn't work that well (kept erasing all the settings). One thing that bugs me :-) is that I can't seem to figure out how to set a default component / ticket type / version.

Thanks for everyone who gave a suggestion to the previous post. I think that we will try that out for a while and see how it goes.

Print | posted on Saturday, October 28, 2006 11:05 PM

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#  10/29/2006 3:50 AM cs

Actually Gemini does support AD integration. Read the instructions (Gemini.pdf). I've used Trac and Gemini. They both have their strengths and weaknesses. Trac is a SOB to install and configure on Windows but I do like it better than Gemini.


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#  10/29/2006 5:19 AM Ayende Rahien

@CS,
Cool, didn't find the AD integration with Gemini.
I certainly agree about the SOB to install.


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#  10/30/2006 7:42 AM Jason Finch

Loving the trac goodness!

You can set the defaults via the webadmin interface . I am assuming you grabbed v.10 or the SVN in which case the Webadmin should be integrated as part of the setup of trac.

Alternatively in the trac.ini file in the ticket section, set your defaults.

[ticket]
default_component = Category
default_milestone = My Milestone
default_priority = normal
default_severity = normal
default_version =

HTH! - Jason


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#  11/1/2006 2:16 PM Symon

Just curious - what was the blocking bug in Gemini?

Symon.


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#  11/1/2006 6:50 PM Ayende Rahien

@Symon,
There was an issue with searching for bug and getting out of range exception

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