Bugzilla
Bugzilla is the leading open-source/free software bug tracking system, with high-profile installations at mozilla.org, GNOME, Red Hat, and NASA, among others. It features a comprehensive set of fields, attachment management, inter-bug dependencies, email notification of changes, a powerful query interface, reporting, and Web, XML, email, and console interfaces. It can be managed entirely using a Web-based UI. The user UI is customizable using templates.
| Tags | Database Front-Ends Office/Business Software Development Bug Tracking Quality Assurance Information Management Issue Tracking |
|---|---|
| Licenses | MPL |
| Implementation | Perl |
Recent releases
- 17 Apr 2010 03:29
Release Notes: The new features in this major release include migration from other bug tracking systems, a simple "Browse" interface for browsing open bugs in a system, some usability improvements resulting from a scientific usability study conducted on Bugzilla, and the ability to have drop-in, easy-to-write Extensions that enhance Bugzilla's functionality.
- 13 Mar 2010 09:34
Release Notes: This release candidate has received QA testing, and should be considerably more stable than the development releases before it. It is still not considered fully stable, and so you should understand that if you use it, you use it at your own risk. It includes Release Notes and a listing of New Features.
- 07 Feb 2010 22:15
Release Notes: This release contains various useful bugfixes and security improvements.
- 19 Nov 2009 10:31
Release Notes: This unstable development release contains one security fix and several new features.
- 19 Nov 2009 10:31
Release Notes: This release fixes one security issue and a few minor bugs.
Recent comments
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Bugzilla 3.2
After years of working with a few free bug tracking apps, we came to the conclusion that they took too long to configure, tended to be too complex for our needs (small web boutique) and too convoluted for non-technical people. So, we wrote our own.
Just launched it as a hosted app. Simple. Efficient. Highly effective. So easy, even clients love it. :-)
There's a free version to check out, and an incredibly inexpensive subscription model.
Would love feedback!
Re: Bugzilla code...
Bugzilla is a great system, but is made
up of some of the worst Perl code I've
ever seen. It's not modular. It uses
techniques that would have made Perl 4
blush for sharing global variables.
There's just too much to know where to
start.
This is far less true now than it ever was. The UI is templatised, and the main CGIs were rewritten in the process for clarity and style. Bugzilla has come a long way since this comment was posted.
Gerv
Re: Hosted BugZilla Application on public server
> BugTracker.com hosts a bugzilla
> application, where you can configure
> your own software project bug tracking,
> since 99.
Not any more, it seems :-) Host not found...
Gerv
Re: Bugzilla code...
> Bugzilla is a great system, but is made
> up of some of the worst Perl code I've
> ever seen. It's not modular. It uses
> techniques that would have made Perl 4
> blush for sharing global variables.
There is an effort underway to fix these problems, and several of them have been recently. If you're planning on rewriting it, why not help out? We'd welcome the assistance at cleaning it up. Discuss this on netscape.public.mozilla.webtools or drop in on the #mozwebtools channel on irc.mozilla.org.
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