Why not setup bugzilla?

[customcpu]

We definitely need a way to track bugs and bugzilla is one of the better systems I have seen. It was written by the developers over at Mozilla. Some big companies (Red Hat comes to mind) are using it. For those of you that have never heard of it here is a small snippet from the web page.

Bugzilla is a database for bugs. It lets people report bugs and assigns these bugs to the appropriate developers. Developers can use bugzilla to keep a to-do list as well as to prioritize, schedule and track dependencies.

Bugzilla also consists of an HTML front end to perform queries into the database. Bugzilla's first installation was at mozilla.org but since then several companies, private and public, open source and commercial are using it to track software defects.


John/James what do you think? The homepage is here - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bugzilla/

[Sharg]

Seems good, but mostly usefull when several people are working on a project.
Only John is developping.... I think this forum is really enough.

Benj

[customcpu]

A forum is just a bad way to track bugs for many reasons. While one of bugzillas strengths is allowing you to assign bugs to specific developers it also allows you to:
- prioritize
- mark bugs as closed
- order things well (as opposed to a bunch of random threads)
- keep a schedule
- easily query the databse to cut down on duplicate bug reports
- etc. etc. etc...

[dcsonic2k]

I think using bugzilla would cut down on a lot of duplicate questions and reports of bugs. I think a forum is a very bad way to do bug tracking, especially for a big alpha program like vBulletin.

[JohnM]

I agree, good idea :)

[James]

customcpu,

Thanks for posting the link - we were planning to set up some kind of bugs database, but I was unable to find a decent program at hotscripts that'll do the job.

I'll check out bugzilla later on today. :)

All the best,

James