[sldev] Bugtracking tool

[John Hurliman]

Laurent Laborde wrote:
> Hello, i'm kerunix Flan.
> i'm the biggest french sim owner and own the most popular french sim,
> including the french school (sim : gaia) with a big community and a
> lot of voluntary helper (we currently limit the amount of volunteers).
>
> I'm creating my website, dedicated to SL of course.
> Currently in beta-test, featuring forums, calendars, the registration
> api, etc ...
> I installed a livehelp system, powered by "craftysyntax", i don't know
> if i'll use it, yet.
>
>
> I have some betatesters and they found some bugs on my website, more
> than i tought.
> So i want to install a bugtracking system, for my website/forum/etc
> and... why not ... Secondlife bug category for french ppl who can't
> write english and bug triage session to report translated bug on the
> LL's public jira.
>
>
> Naturally, i wanted to install JIRA but it's really too expensive.
> (and require another webserver, my current webserver don't support
> java stuff, but it's not a blocking problem. The price of jira is.)
>
> I know bugzilla but it's pain in the *** for the user and admin.
> The only other bugtracker i know is mantis (last time i used it was 4
> years ago, i think).
>
> Do you know another web-based bugtracker tool, multi user, with
> functionality close to JIRA ?
>
> i know JIRA : too expensive
> bugzilla : too complex, not "user friendly".
> mantis : not bad :)
> something else ?
>
> thx
>
>

The libsecondlife and OpenSim projects share an install of Mantis and it 
seems to work well. Maybe not the simplest to understand interface for 
non-developer users though, so keep your target audience in mind.

John Hurliman