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The "interesting" parts for writing FogBugz, is working with Wasabi, their homegrown compiler that spits out classic ASP and PHP. That's an interesting challeng
by johns 19y ago
The "interesting" parts for writing FogBugz, is working with Wasabi, their homegrown compiler that spits out classic ASP and PHP. That's an interesting challenge, right?? /sarcasm
To their defense, FogBugz is more than a simple bug tracker. Predictive scheduling is a novel and useful feature that separates them from pretty much every other free and commercial bug tracker I've used.
- henning 19y agoFogBugz has an intelligent design that makes it easy to get issues and customer interaction into the tracker so that it gets in and stays there rather than being scrawled on sticky notes and gone over verbally between only two people in someone's office. It has a good spam filter that does n-category email classification like JGC's POPFile. It has data entry interfaces that combine the best of an unorganized PIM like 37Signals' Backpack with an organized issue tracker like Trac. (Personal experience: Backpack is great to start out with for just about anything, but does not scale over time.) But, these are more about good design than turbogenius brilliance, and good design does not require rocket science, it requires perspective and taste.
- ovi256 19y ago>Predictive scheduling is a novel and useful feature that separates them from pretty much every other free and commercial bug tracker I've used. Not for long. I'm working on an EBS (improved) implementation as a Trac plugin. Haven't decided if I'll open source it though.