What is the best bugtracker / project manager?

[ChaosLord]

I recently discovered the project management system that Amiga.org has in their vb system.  Its way cool!

I have recently been thinking of setting up a phpBB forum to help me get organized in my Amiga gamecoding.

So I went to see if there was a plug in like it for phpbb but I could not find one.  Maybe I am not using the right search terms?  I tried track, tracker, manag, but nothing useful popped up.

So then I checked my Yahoo Groups to see if they had an app to do something similar.  They have many apps but nothing like a bugtracker or project manager.

I need a kewl friendly way of tracking bugreports and feature requests.  Maybe it will organize me and motivate me better.

I never ever used a bugtracker or feature request manager or project manager before until yesterday when I spent half an hour using the Amiga.org project thingamajig.  So I am a total newb.

What is the ultimate project manager?
What is the ultimate bugtracker?

[SamuraiCrow]

Trac comes highly recommended.  It's what is in use on the "dark side" of the NatAmi project.  Since you're on the team you can look at it yourself and see what you think.

[ChaosLord]

@Sam

My apologies kind sir, but I just don't like the look and feel of Trac at all.  And it does not seem to do the kinds of things that the Amiga.org Project Manager does.  Maybe I am doing something wrong or my brain is just not working, but that is how it looks to me.

I used Trac for 5 mins and was like "blah".

I used Amiga.org Project manger for 5 mins and was like "Wow! This is cool!"

[SamuraiCrow]

I can't find a link to the project manager here on Amiga.org that you are referring to.  Do you have to be the manager of a social group to see it?

[ChaosLord]

Nah.  There is link on left hand side Site Navigation / Bug Reports

Or just click here for an example bug report:http://www.amiga.org/forums/project.php?issueid=59#note317

It was so cool!  I was wandering around in there and came to that one and it asked me if I could reproduce the bug and I was like "Why thank u 4 asking!  Yes I experience that bug and it really annoys me.  Its wack."

I could have voted "Can't reproduce" or "Not a bug".

That could be darn useful for when I issue major new updates of Total Chaos!

[SamuraiCrow]

Something like this?

[ChaosLord]

@Sam
I can't find it listed anywhere that a person can download and run that on their own.

[buzz]

I've used a few over the years. The only one flexible enough has been redmine.
multiple projects/parent child projects/public/private projects/multi user/wiki/repo browser/files/formus/documents/issues etc etc.

only thing it's ruby so if you are not familiar might take a few mins longer to config/setup.

http://www.redmine.org/

http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Features

[SamuraiCrow]

I've used a few over the years. The only one flexible enough has been redmine.

Since it's written in Rails, I assume that means it needs to have that on the server instead of PHP or in addition to it?  (I'm not much on Web design.)

[buzz]

in addition - you can happily run php alongside ruby. you need ruby and rails and a a few other ruby libs like rack. on debian most is available as packages but you can use ruby's "gem" tool to install anything missing.

I run it via apache with mod_rails (passenger) - http://www.modrails.com/ on debian squeeze.

it was more of an arse to setup initially that perhaps some php+mysql app, but it was worth it imho.

[yakumo9275]

redmine is awesome. trac is pure evil in being setup and keeping running and configured. I run my redmin as an fcgi in lighttpd

[commodorejohn]

Notepad. I say that mostly to horrify the kind of process-worshipping anal-retentives who populate TheDailyWTF, though :lol:

[kamelito]

I recently discovered the project management system that Amiga.org has in their vb system.  Its way cool!

I have recently been thinking of setting up a phpBB forum to help me get organized in my Amiga gamecoding.

So I went to see if there was a plug in like it for phpbb but I could not find one.  Maybe I am not using the right search terms?  I tried track, tracker, manag, but nothing useful popped up.

So then I checked my Yahoo Groups to see if they had an app to do something similar.  They have many apps but nothing like a bugtracker or project manager.

I need a kewl friendly way of tracking bugreports and feature requests.  Maybe it will organize me and motivate me better.

I never ever used a bugtracker or feature request manager or project manager before until yesterday when I spent half an hour using the Amiga.org project thingamajig.  So I am a total newb.

What is the ultimate project manager?
What is the ultimate bugtracker?

 Bug tracker you've Bugzilla, currently I'm using Mantis which is quite simple and do the job. As for project manager I think Salome TMF can be used but I never tried it. On the commercial side of thing the most used one is Quality Center by HP.   Kamel

[Heiroglyph]

I've been happy with FogBugz, but it's commercial.  http://www.fogcreek.com/fogbugz/

[Caius]

I'll recommend Redmine too. I also agree Mantis is nice, but Redmine gives you an all-in-one solution.