in reply to Bugzilla vs. PerlDesk - A survey

There is also rt, which is built on Mason. It has a significant following. I've never used any of these for more than a few minutes, but I suspect they all work for most people.

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Re: Re: Bugzilla vs. PerlDesk - A survey
by IlyaM (Parson) on Jul 09, 2002 at 16:43 UTC
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    I've been using RT for more than one year. It is way better than Bugzilla. Some pros that come to my mind:

    • Very flexiable ACLs. You can configure easily who can see, reply, comment and admin tickets and ticket queues.
    • Unlike Bugzilla most functionality is configurable via web interface.
    • Unlike Bugzilla it is designed to be extandable via add-on modules.
    • It is written in much better Perl. I'm sorry, probably Mozilla developers are good C++ developers but their Perl is crap (at least it was crap year ago when I looked on it last time).

    Not sure how RT compares to PerlDesk as I have never used it but I urge you to look on RT too. It is very good.

    Update: I forgot about another pro: RT has two-way email gateway. Unlike Bugzilla you don't just get notifications for new posts and comments but you can reply on them using your faivorite email client.

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    Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/)