Ask HN: Alternatives to Fogbugz

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12959804

by mmaunder • 10 years ago

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We're considering moving away from Fogbugz in light of recent events. What are medium (23 people) sized dev teams who are distributed using for bug tracking?

nwrk2• 10 years ago

Try Jira and/or whole Atlassian family [1]. Or Github now have Projects [2].

Interesting to see what others are using too.

[1] https://www.atlassian.com/software [2] https://github.com/blog/2256-a-whole-new-github-universe-ann...

nwrk2• 10 years ago

UPDATE: if some traveler stumble upon this thread

As super cool alternative to Jira see ClubHouse [1]

[1] https://clubhouse.io/

alsetmusic• 10 years ago

I've recently begun using fogbugz (don't love it, but it's been "good enough"). I'm curious what recent events have caused you to reconsider. If the company has behaved in a manner counter to my sense of ethics, I would also consider switching away. Can you please elaborate?

mmaunder2• 10 years ago

They were down for a few hours yesterday morning and again this morning. Also been slow when not down during the past 2 days. They had some kind of incident with their storage systems AFAIK. They've worked well for us so far, but this is hurting us e.g. dev meetings yesterday and today had to be done without bug tracking system, so we couldn't discuss current sprint progress, individual bugs, etc.

Lots of other customers affected: https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=fogbu...

mmaunder2• 10 years ago

Received a detailed update from Daniel in their CS team as soon as we reached out. They're hoping to have everything back to normal tomorrow. Happy with the response.

charlie-r• 10 years ago

We've found JIRA to be the best option for our small (5 person) team. We enjoy the ubiquitous integrations, powerful project management tools and reliability. Keyboard shortcut support is fantastic.

I would warn that (as of 1.5 years ago), JIRA Cloud is very slow. We've since moved to JIRA Server and solved the speed issues.

guitarbill• 10 years ago

Used JIRA in a medium team (~50-100 people) and it also works well. Integration is super, great UI.

Whatever you do, don't use anything by Rational/IBM. I know people who've left because of Rational Team Concert, it's that frustrating day to day.

satysin• 10 years ago

What recent events have I missed?

jsferrei• 10 years ago

I think he's talking about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12959755

http://status.fogcreek.com/

zingBhavya• 10 years ago

Is this for web development? Then have you considered visual bug tracking systems like zipBoard, bugherd?

jstewartmobile• 10 years ago

I've never used Fogbugz, but of all the open source options, my favorite is Redmine: http://www.redmine.org/

cakes• 10 years ago

Something like phabricator is always a reasonable choice

https://www.phacility.com/

amcrouch• 10 years ago

Atlassian Jira.

I have used it solo and on teams of 20 or so and I would be hard pushed to recommend something so highly.

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