I administer our RT installation at work, and it just about meets all of our needs (aside from some minor annoyances). We use it for both support tickets and for bug tracking, and aside from some initial tweaks needed to make it fit the way we work, everything's been running smoothly.

Local customizations were pretty simple once you learn how the overlay system works, and interfacing it with external code isn't too difficult either. We've got a script that scans the incoming ticket queue and associates each one with the appropriate customer account in Salesforce for the sales team (using the Salesforce SOAP API), and an RT query module for mozbot so we can grab basic ticket status via IRC.

I've never used (and until now, never heard of) OTRS, so I don't really have much to say about it. However, I notice that they use Bugzilla for their own tracking, rather than eating their own dogfood.

In reply to Re: [Opinion] RT versus OTRS by dave0
in thread [Opinion] RT versus OTRS by ghenry

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