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Ask HN: Alternatives to Fogbugz

14 points by mmaunder 10y ago

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?

nwrk 10y 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 https://www.atlassian.com/software [2] https://github.com/blog/2256-a-whole-new-github-universe-announcing-new-tools-forums-and-features https://github.com/blog/2256-a-whole-new-github-universe-ann...
- nwrk 10y ago
  UPDATE: if some traveler stumble upon this thread As super cool alternative to Jira see ClubHouse [1] [1] https://clubhouse.io/ https://clubhouse.io/
alsetmusic 10y 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?
- mmaunder 10y 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=fogbugz&src=typd https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=fogbu...
  - mmaunder 10y 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 10y 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 10y 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 10y ago
What recent events have I missed?
- jsferrei 10y ago
  I think he's talking about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12959755 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12959755 http://status.fogcreek.com/ http://status.fogcreek.com/
zingBhavya 10y ago
Is this for web development? Then have you considered visual bug tracking systems like zipBoard, bugherd?
jstewartmobile 10y ago
I've never used Fogbugz, but of all the open source options, my favorite is Redmine: http://www.redmine.org/ http://www.redmine.org/
cakes 10y ago
Something like phabricator is always a reasonable choice https://www.phacility.com/ https://www.phacility.com/
amcrouch 10y 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.

14 points by mmaunder 10y ago

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?

nwrk 10y 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 https://www.atlassian.com/software [2] https://github.com/blog/2256-a-whole-new-github-universe-announcing-new-tools-forums-and-features https://github.com/blog/2256-a-whole-new-github-universe-ann...

nwrk 10y ago
UPDATE: if some traveler stumble upon this thread As super cool alternative to Jira see ClubHouse [1] [1] https://clubhouse.io/ https://clubhouse.io/

alsetmusic 10y 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?

mmaunder 10y 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=fogbugz&src=typd https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=fogbu...
- mmaunder 10y 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 10y 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 10y 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 10y ago

What recent events have I missed?

jsferrei 10y ago
I think he's talking about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12959755 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12959755 http://status.fogcreek.com/ http://status.fogcreek.com/

zingBhavya 10y ago

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

jstewartmobile 10y ago

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

cakes 10y ago

Something like phabricator is always a reasonable choice https://www.phacility.com/ https://www.phacility.com/

amcrouch 10y 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.