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Bugzilla Delivered to the Desktop

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the it's-not-a-bug-it's-a-feature dept.

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.

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  1. For a while I did something similar for GForge... by tcopeland · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...it was a Java client that used Apache Axis and the GForge SOAP API to make a GUI client. I made a little jEdit plugin and a little JFreeChart app that showed user and project charts.

    I wasn't really using the GUI client very much, though, so I ran out of interest. But if something like that was available that could talk to the SourceForge servers, I'd buy it...

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  2. Re:Damn! by lilmouse · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Silly boy, web interface will still work!

    This is actually really really interesting. I can totally see the value this would have for a company that uses Bugzilla as the bug-tracking software. The tree structure would be really handy in certain situations, and for a company, the $99 pricetag is a drop in the bucket. It's not something I would want everyone to use, but for some people who use bugzilla very often for management, this would be handy.

    The offline bit is really great - if you need to go to a client, and want to take the buglist along with you, you're pretty screwed. But if you have this, there's a local copy you carry around, and it seamlessly integrates...very nice. Very very nice.

    --LWM

  3. Is Bugzilla just for software development? by Rude+Turnip · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've been involved in a number of large projects at work that involve the use of several staff members and the creation of large, complex financial analysis models and literally thousands of pages of text. Could a program like Deskzilla (or full-blown Bugzilla) offer me and my colleagues some basic project management tools? It would be pretty cool if it could generate some sort of report that we could show to clients if they want a status report of our progress. Any thoughts on this? I've managed very well without such software, but anything to make better use of my time would help. I've no desire to get a commercial package like MS Project...I would like to keep things open and lean. Any thoughts on this?

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  4. Already written in Java... by shadowmatter · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... Just too bad it isn't an Eclipse plug-in. That would have been slick.

    - shadowmatter

  5. Re:A conundrum by eli173 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    But how was the *first* compiler compiled?

    Just thinking about that makes me head explo[NO CARRIER].

    Go read Reflections on Trusting Trust and pay particular attention to the part about the '\v' character.

    'Course the rest of that document may reduce you to gibbering goo. ;)
  6. Re:Doesn't beat commercial apps by Alioth · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Bugzilla is both practical and reliable - and it is used on some VERY large projects (tracking hundreds of thousands of bugs).

    We use it to track not just bugs, but feature requests and issues for our IT department. It fits what we need very well. The nearest commercial offering is unjustifiably expensive and is a lot less flexible than Bugzilla. It's always a question of the right tool for the right job - but for what we do (and what many projects out there do), Bugzilla fits perfectly - reliably and practically.

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