Ask HN: Alternatives to Fogbugz

Posted by mmaunder on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @11:56AM
from the ask-hn dept.

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?

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Fogbugz by nwrk on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @12:27PM (#12960116)

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...

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Fogbugz by nwrk on Saturday November 26, 2016 @01:13AM (#13042012)

UPDATE: if some traveler stumble upon this thread

As super cool alternative to Jira see ClubHouse [1]

[1] https://clubhouse.io/

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Fogbugz by charlie-r on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @12:54PM (#12960361)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Fogbugz by guitarbill on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @03:05PM (#12961672)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Fogbugz by alsetmusic on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @12:46PM (#12960293)

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?

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Fogbugz by mmaunder on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @01:08PM (#12960501)

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...

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Fogbugz by mmaunder on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @04:14PM (#12962287)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Fogbugz by jstewartmobile on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @10:27AM (#12967721)

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

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Fogbugz by cakes on Thursday November 17, 2016 @11:20AM (#12978752)

Something like phabricator is always a reasonable choice

https://www.phacility.com/

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Fogbugz by amcrouch on Thursday November 17, 2016 @11:53AM (#12979066)

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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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Fogbugz by zingBhavya on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @12:41AM (#12964795)

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

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Fogbugz by satysin on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @12:56PM (#12960384)

What recent events have I missed?

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Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Fogbugz by jsferrei on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @12:56PM (#12960388)

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

http://status.fogcreek.com/

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