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Best Integrated Issue-Tracker For Subversion?
JobSeeker writes "Now that subversion has merge tracking my boss wants to save money by dropping our expensive commercial solution. I've pretty much convinced myself that subversion can do the job. I like it. But what about integrated issue tracking? Version control without issue tracking is only half a solution. The TortoiseSVN docs say a little about bugzilla and not much else. What ready-to-play options (commercial or open source) exist for deploying subversion on commercial projects?"
We've been using Trac for a long time and it worked well.
We since discovered Redmine which does about the same job, is themed prettier and seems to be a bit easier to use. All in all Trac and Redmine both do about the same things.
Redmine has a built-in user management, which I'm taking advantage of in our SVN/Hg web server to authenticate users with (single sign on)
Redmine also has support for multiple projects in one tracker, whereas trac needs multiple installs for multiple disjointed projects. The workflow manager in Redmine is also really easy to use; no dicking about writing python scripts to control your workflow.
Redmine talks to Svn, Git, Mercurial, Bazzar and a couple of other source control tools, which is useful if you ever need to move on to those tools. Trac is pretty rooted on subversion, though it does have a Git plugin.
Both are pretty easy to install, but I had Redmine up and running in about 4 minutes whereas it took a bit of messing about to get Trac running.
Redmine also has the manager friendly theme (think that horrible facebook style) so managers will goo and gaa over it then sign off that it be implemented.
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By the way, there's Redmine that seems trying to be to Trac what Subversion is to CVS (in that it clearly builds up on Trac experiencies trying to do it better). It is multiproject for one, but I really didn't have the time to play with it (what about user management integration with LDAP, ACLs, threaded tickets, mailbox management, etc.).
That said, Redmine is based on RoR, so I really don't know what will happen when/if they find the limits of the framework (and on my environment it seems easier to find people with Python experience than Ruby). To me and by now, I'd enjoy if Redmine/Trac is the base for a sane competition between them.
Back on topic, not exactly what it was asked but one of the best open source ticket tracking tools over there I think is OTRS (no SVN integration and Perl based, though).
Bugzilla - Nice and lots of support, but the interface makes you want to kill yourself.
No it doesn't.
It makes me want to kill others. :)