Potential Blog

I’ve installed a new bug tracking tool: Flyspray. This supplants the previous BUGS (The Bug Genie) system, which I could never get into.

Rant: BUGS was supposed to be easy-to-use, but that seemed to translate to “pretty icons” rather than clean functionality. In fact, I found the UI interaction to be particularly clunky and confusing. There were too many redundant and conflicting ways to manage bug reports. I suspect the developers were more familiar with CSS than bug tracking. It did have pretty icons, though.

So far, I like Flyspray much better. In fact, the only reason I didn’t install it originally (last year) was that their latest version did not have an installer. No big deal, except that my previous Web host only had FTP access (yech), so I couldn’t do a manual install. That, and a test install of the previous version failed.

So it took them several months to finish the installer… who am I to complain about lengthy software development?