open source bug tracking tools?

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> writes"

> I'm doing research on said subject for my new employer.  They were VERY unimpressed 
> with Merant, and laughed at Rational wen they heard the prices for the basic stuff, 
> even before training, etc.
> 
> I'm going through FreshMeat and SourceForge, but could use real-world feedback on 
> any of these, especially Bugzilla.  Web-based is good.  Solaris-compatible is good, 
> but I may convince them to use Linux.

A couple years ago I went through this; I eventually found the web site for
Linux Enterprise Computing at 

    http://linas.org/linux/

which led me to a detailed report on a whole bunch of tools:

    Call Center, Bug Tracking and Project Management Tools for Linux
    http://linas.org/linux/pm.html

My own needs at the time were modest, and I ended up using Request Tracker:

    http://www.fsck.com/projects/rt/


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