Bug Tracking, Round II

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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.