Bugdar 1.0 review
DownloadFor the first time, it's easy to have a good-looking, powerful, fast, and feature-rich bug tracker.
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For the first time, it's easy to have a good-looking, powerful, fast, and feature-rich bug tracker... that doesn't take an expert to install.
Bugdar is a rich charcol-colored, tabbed interface surrounds your bug management center.
It has been designed to be extremely user-frienly and easy to work with. All of the main controls are in tabs at the top of the screen, and bugs can be colored based on their status to make it easy to identify what reports need attention.
While other systems use nothing more than a white background with black text, Bugdar uses standards-complaint CSS and XHTML in templates. All that you have to do to modify any portion of Bugdar's interface is merely edit cleanly-composed XHTML or modify one of the CSS definitions.
Bugdar comes with a set of the most commonly-used fields in bug reporting. However, we recognize that you—and your organization—may have special needs; because of this, Bugdar has a feature to allow you to create your own custom fields. With this feature, you can define additional options for reports that can be entered and modified like any other field; they can even be searched!
Another feature is one called "Automatic Actions" which allow an administrator to define a macro. These macros can be used to set any bug fields and enter comments with one single click. Automatic actions allow users to use one of these defined actions to make managing bugs easier. For instance, one could be defined to mark a bug "Closed and Fixed" and then leave a comment; with an automatic action, all this can be done with one click.
Here are some key features of "Bugdar":
User Features
Optional email-confirmation required registration
Status-colored bug listings
Streamlined tabbed interface
MySQL-enabled fulltext boolean search
"Automatic Actions" macros
Comments system for bugs
In-line user help system
Ability to vote for or against a bug
Attachment system
Complete bug history/activity log
A bug "favorite" system to track important bugs
Ability to mark bugs and comments "hidden" for security reasons
Customizable display name
Multi-lingual-enabled interface
Timezone support so that dates are displayed in the user's timezone
Stick search: the results of your last search are remembered so you can leave the page and not worry
Bug quick-search to find bugs simply by the ID
Ability to define duplicate and dependent bugs for a given bug
Administrative Features
Ability to set the defaults for fields in new bug reports
Customizable user help system
Unlimited products, components, and versions that are administrator-defined
Customizable priorities, resolutions, severities, and statuses
Ability to define custom bug fields that are unique to your specific needs
Power to set permissions on custom fields on the usergroup-level
Comprehensive usergroup management that allows for global permission controls
Per-product usergroup permissions, allowing greater control over Bugdar
Administrative in-line help system.
Requirements:
PHP 4.1.0 or greater
MySQL 4.0.1 or greater
ISSO 1.0.3 or higher.
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