Re: interesting food for thought

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 11:48, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 07:12, David Fallon wrote:
> > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/news/20020912.html
> > 
> > - on custom fields and bug tracking systems. A nice reminder for me, and
> > as always my apologies if it was a waste of time for you...
> > 
> > -- 
> > dave
> 
> It's interesting how FogBugz seems to be a total proprietary clone of
> Bugzilla, unless I'm missing something. The only extra feature I noticed
> was source code integration - which can probably be set up with bugzilla
> with a small script on the CVS server end.

Pretty much all bug trackers are clones to some extent or another ;) But
yeah, I fail to see (from their screenshots) why one would pay for
FogBugz. There are already scripts for cvs<->bugzilla integration, FWIW.
I'd set them up except I doubt people would ever get good at using them,
and I'm not sure how well maintained they are.

Luis