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Bugzilla Delivered to the Desktop
sereda writes "Deskzilla released their desktop client for the Bugzilla bug tracking system today. The Deskzilla system promises to deliver features for greater productivity and improved working environment for the users of Bugzilla." There are also a few screenshots posted on their site.
They use an older, stable version of Bugzilla to track issues in newer releases. Just like gcc folks use the current version of gcc to compile the next one. No magic here.
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Note that Deskzilla, unlike Bugzilla, is not open-source.
Think of it as using an IMAP client (Evolution, Thunderbird, etc...) instead of a web-based mail system such as gmail or hotmail. It's not laziness that drives this, but rather efficiency. Less time waiting for a webpage to load could correlate with increased productivity.
Yes, I'm suggesting we need a SlashDesk app. That would increase my productivity 10-fold.
For open source projects its offered as freeware. You need to send an email to opensource@deskzilla.com with your name, project's name & URL, and Bugzilla URL of the project for a freebie key.Then you may proceed to download the proggie.
For everyone else, it's purely commercial. All your $99 are belong to them!
It is certainly very usable for a situation where you have a common goal and a few people working on sub-tasks that are required for that goal. Bugzilla will let you track what is dependant on what and let you easily communicate with each other.
It's not as suitable for actually collaborating on content - that would work better with some Wiki software.
It also doesn't really have anything that deals with timeframes and timelines.
I've heard good things about http://www.edgewall.com/trac/.
Here are a couple of eclipse plugins for bugzilla- buglist and the unimaginatively titled Bugzilla integration plugin for eclipse
It wasn't compiled. It was hand written in machine code. When I first learned machine code and we had to write things in machine code on the little virtual machines we had I was starting to think of assembly as an easy to use language. Heh. That is when you know you are at the bottom of the barrel ;) (It was actually pretty fun).
Jeremy
Umm... if you don't have internet, you can't use a client-server app either.
They offer free download for people in opensource development, and you can also use the "bleeding edge" version for free.
--LWM
Seriously, what is fatter than a bloody web browser? I've never understood why I'm expected to prefer web interfaces to other things. Especially when the web interfaces suck as badly as they do.
Well, I haven't used Bugzilla, but I've used many others which my employer doubtlessly paid megabucks for, and which were clearly made and marketed as practical jokes. By unusability experts.
We went from decentralized, to centralized back to decentralized...... now back?
Centralization is orthogonal to the browser/local application issue. As a user, if there is a single, central database and a single, non-programmable interface, I'm screwed.
MyEclipse (an Eclipse plugin) already has Bugzilla integration, and only costs $30/year (whereas Deskzilla costs $99). I haven't used the Bugzilla integration much to say how good it is (J2EE app server support in MyEclipse is great, though). And I'm not really sure if they just repackaged this plugin that was already mentioned.
The MyEclipseIDE ( http://www.myeclipseide.com/ ) people bundle it into their add-on pack as well. IIRC, it's a slightly tweaked version of the bugzilla integration plugin.
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"It would have been worse if they'd gone with it and then I'd be stuck PHP programming"
:) Works like a charm now. Haven't touched the machine in 6 months.
Isn't bugzilla written in Perl? Oh yeah, I remember the pain getting the dependency graphing to work local
"Piter, too, is dead."
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Think of Deskzilla (in this situation) as a way of copying the text from Bugzilla to a spreadsheet, except it's really really fast, and you don't have to do it yourself.
If you're not using deskzilla, you'd probably still have this sort of confidential information running around in your browser cache, etc. Best bet, of course, is to encrypt the harddrive of the laptop, so if it gets stolen, nothing can be pulled from it. In the case that the user is "evil", then you can't do anything about it one way or another.
--LWM
The bleeding edge version seems to be unavailable for the moment. Also, if you want a free copy for being an FOSS developer, they limit you in the EULA for Open Source Projects to only one project. Now, I haven't checked to see if it was possible to use it with more than one, but they do not allow it in the license.