Personal Bug Tracking with Mantis on Windows GBB Services::: Personal Bug Tracking with Mantis on Windows by Whenever I do work for a client, I check my changes into their version control system, and I update my tasks using their bug tracking system (when they have one). Independently of that, I also use my own personal version control system to track the changes I make as I develop. But, I've never used a personal bug tracking system. That I should change my evil ways, and so I did. After hearing about the hassles a client had with the closed source product TestTrack Pro from Seapine Software (the outgoing mail port is hard coded) I decided to go with an open source product. If I need to tweak things, I don't want to depend on the owners of the source to get around to making the changes I want, if they make them at all. Free is nice, but not crucial.

GBB Services spends thousands of dollars every year on development software (and thousands more on hardware). We're willing to spend money for the right products! The best known open source bug tracker seems to be, and I downloaded it. That's about as far as I got. It's way too complicated for my purposes, and I dumped it quickly.

Then I heard about. 'Easy to install, easy to customize, free, open source, works on Windows 2000.' It sounded good. It took me a while to get Mantis working, mostly because I didn't know what I was doing. Knowing what I know now, I can get Mantis installed on a fresh machine a LOT faster. With this note I'll be sharing some of what I learned.

Mantis requires that at least two other open source programs are installed and working. They are the database application MySQL, and the scripting language PHP. I didn't have either before I started, so I had to install and use both for the first time, and then I had to coordinate their use with Mantis. It's no problem, if things go well. I'll be mentioning some diagnostics you can run to immediately tell if things are going well or not. Also, Mantis requires that a web server be installed.

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