Automonous bugtracker

07.05.2009 16:19 ·  Notes  ·  thoughts

I’ve been working on several projects lately. Of course, from time to time bugs are found or users ask for additional features… All this should be written down somewhere, because there is a very high probability that you will forget some of the features/bugs by the time you can start working on them.

In this case, the most logical and convenient solution is a bug tracker. The problem is that all the options I’m aware of are web-based, but I don’t want to install Apache and MySQL and have them running all the time just for the sake of a seldom-used system. Also, I need to use it both at home and at work - so there is a need to synchronise tracker instances. So I started looking for an “offline autonomous bug tracker”, but I haven’t found anything yet.

But why? Is it really such an exotic option? It seems to me that this kind of software would be in high demand among developers working on small projects and those who, for whatever reason, can’t or don’t want to install a web server.