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Ask Slashdot: How Do You Track Bugs For Personal Software Projects?

Posted by timothy on from the when-bugzilla-is-a-monster dept.

An anonymous reader writes "One of my personal software projects grows bigger than I thought and the bugs becomes too many to just remember. I looked around for an open source bugs tracking system but found no ideal solutions. Ideally I wanted a simple system that does not need server setup and extra database setup, and can run under Mac OS X. Another option is a cloud service if it's affordable enough. Any suggestions from Slashdot?"

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  1. Mantis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Been using Mantis for years, easy to install, easy to setup, easy to manage.

  2. Fossil is the way to go. by Noryungi · · Score: 5, Informative

    Fossil (http://www.fossil-scm.org) is just great: it allows you to manage your code, documentation (wiki) and tickets (bugs).

    It's really small and lightweight, offers its own web interface and can be made to run on a central server with a CGI script. Oh, and it's free and open-source.

    It also scales very well: for instance the entire NetBSD code base has fossil repositories.

    I am currently re-starting some personal projects and I will be using fossil almost exclusively for these. It's simply fantastic.

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