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Bugzilla on Windows?
slipandfall asks: "I just started work at a 100% Windows shop (no chance of changing this) and would love to implement Bugzilla for issue tracking but statements like this - 'Making Bugzilla work on Windows is still a painful processes.' in the
OS-Specific installation notes don't make it seem reasonable. Since there is no chance of using Linux/UNIX here, can I get people's experiences using Bugzilla on Windows or experience with a tool (open source or not) on Windows with similar notification, discussion and issue tracking features?"
I've used Mantis with great success for several years, both on Linux and Windows hosts. They also have limited support for SQL Server, which is somewhat unofficial with the current v0.19 release but official release will come with v1 next year. Enjoy!
Damien
RT is an enterprise-grade ticketing system which enables a group of people to intelligently and efficiently manage tasks, issues, and requests submitted by a community of users. It is used by Fortune 100 companies, government agencies, educational institutions, and development organizations worldwide.
I have created a Windows port of RT, and have been maintaining it for two years now, selling support contracts for a living, as well as developing RT-Foundry, a project similar to GForge/Trac, on top of RT.
The RT-Win32 installer comes with its own Apache2, MySQL4.1, Perl 5.8.6 and Fetchmail, so you'd not need any other existing SQL server to set it up. I'd be happy if you'd give it a try. :)
I am in a similar situation, mostly Windows with a couple of HP-UX machines that I don't have real access to. I ended up installing Mantis Bug Tracker, http://www.mantisbt.org/. It's written in PHP and install time and complexity is low.
Have you tried installing Cygwin to 'fool' Bugzilla into thinking it's running on Linux?
I'm not a hardcore Fogbugz user, but I've been involved with a few projects that had lightweight use of it, and I think it is quite nice. nice. It runs on Unix/Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.
It is not free as in beer. But it is quite reasonably priced imho. There's a free trial of course.
Check out their pages on How Fogbugz Works and Why Fogbugz Works
It's from Joel Splosky, writer of the JoelOnSoftware blog.
I have a friend that uses Colinux to run Debian on his Windows machine (it's essentially a VirtualPC type thing). You could pop the server onto that and it should work fine.
Edd Dumbill has a list of (mostly) free issue tracking systems. It's a very good starting point.
One of the most interesting systems in that list is (IMHO) Eventum, by the company that produces the commercial version of MySQL. It only needs PHP and MySQL, and should therefore run well on Windows. Be advised that I haven't actually tried it though.
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I've set up bugzilla on windows following this tutorial and it works quite well.
Just went over and looked at bugzilla.org. On the download page it says.
Windows users: It is now possible to install Bugzilla on Windows with very little if any modification to Bugzilla itself. See Byron Jones' Bugzilla Installation Guide for Windows for instructions.
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In the real world it does work like that.
You get a PII with 128 megs of ram that won't take XP or Win2kpro well, ask your boss to let you run some test or something, install linux, and presto, it works.
Then, when the company looks at the cost of keeping the PII as-is versus migrting to windows, they'll keep the PII.
Repeat.
I've done this. I'm on the third box.
Fortune 500.
"Piter, too, is dead."
excellent product that i highly recommend. source is clean and installtion is easy. cost money but it relatively inexpensive, espicially if you work for a large company like me. customer listing is impressive (not that this means a great deal but certainly only helps): http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/customers.j sp
standard $1200
profession $2400
enterprise $4800
(you get the source for each edition and support for a year and i think upgrades for year)
for the war/webapp you need java, an application server (tomcat, jboss, ) and a relational database (postgres, mysql, ). or use there prepackaged/standalone version containing an application server (i think tomcat) and relational datbaase (i think hypersonic).
took me 15 minutes to setup the standalone version and about an hour to setup the webapp version. i write java webapps for a living, but if youve setup bugzilla before there documentation should be good enough for non java developers.
there is a 30 day trial, just download and install. no gimmicks.
i belive the current or next version implements a workflow engine (i think osworkflow) if you need it.
note that i am in no way affiliated with Atlassian and my remarks are based solely on memory so things could have changed.
use Mantis instead of bugzilla
it will run on Windows too
http://mantisbt.org/
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