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Slant community chat on Discourse| 11 Recommended Products | Recommendations | Git | Mercurial | SVN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 GitHub Issues· · · | 26 | 7 | yes | no | – |
| #2 GitLab issues· · · | 8 | 0 | yes | no | no |
| #3 Bitbucket's bug tracker· · · | 12 | 2 | yes | yes | – |
| #4 Redmine· · · | 10 | 4 | yes | yes | yes |
| #5 Phabricator· · · | 6 | 0 | Yes | Yes (no largefiles extension) | Yes |
| #6 The Bug Genie· · · | 2 | 1 | – | – | – |
Pro Large community
GitHub is the largest code host on the planet with over 21.4 million hosted repositories and many users. It's unarguably the largest VCS used by developers worldwide and as such, it has a vibrant community that follows it resulting in many guides and tutorials for new users. Even experienced d...
Pro Nice and usable UI
GitHub's UI is clean and intuitive. Each view is designed to not fill the screen with useless information. For example, the repository view displays only the most crucial data about that repo - on the top it displays the number of commits, branches, releases and contributors. When clicked, ea...
Pro Supports Two-Factor authentication
GitHub has added another layer of security to their user accounts. This layer comes in the form of Two-Factor authentication. After it's enabled, GitHub delivers an authentication code by SMS, or by a free application for smartphones. After two-factor authentication is enabled, the authenticat...
Con Only public repositories are free
Unfortunately, compared to some other competitors, GitHub offers closed repositories only for premium users, and the price is not cheap at all.
Con Only git repositories are fully supported
Github has full support only for Git, while it has some support for SVN. But it doesn't have any support for Mercurial though.
Pro Good web UI
GitLab's UI is clean and intuitive. Each view is designed to not fill the screen with useless information. It displays the activity in a feed-type way in the most prominent part of the view. On top of that, there's a toolbar with buttons which can filter this feed by pushes, merge events...
Pro Free and open source
Gitlab is a free open source project licensed under MIT. Source code for Enterprise Edition can be found here and Community Edition here.
Con Search functionality is not that refined
While you can search for users or projects, you cannot search for a filename. This makes GitLab's search one of the weak points in an otherwise great tool.
Pro Free unlimited private repositories for small teams
Bitbucket offers unlimited private repositories for free, as long as the number of members in a team is not larger than 5. BitBucket does not use GitHub's pricing plan, instead of charging users for each private repo, it charges teams per number of team members. It is free for up to 5 people.
Pro Supports both Mercurial and Git
Has full support for both Mercurial and Git VCS.
Con Only 5 users are free
5 users free: Unlimited private repos, Dedicated support, Code reviews, Custom domains, JIRA integration, REST API.
Con Integration with other tools is not as good as github
Most of the 3rd party tools ( bug trackers, CI servers, chat servers, etc) always integrate with GitHub first, and either don't integrate with Bitbucket at all or do sub par job in it. For example there are 3 separate projects to allow building and verifying pull request submissions on
Pro Open source
Redmine is a free and open source tool.
Pro Visually appealing and has high usability
Redmine's UI is very simple and easy to learn to use. It does not overwhelm users with many options and information at once.
Con No hosted solution
In order to use redmine you have to install it into your own server or computer where you also need to have Ruby installed first. While it's not extremely hard, it's not an easy feat for a beginner.
Pro Actively updated
Phabricator is quickly improving, with bug fixes and new features added often. There is an update to the changelog every couple of weeks.
Pro Open Source
Phabricator is open source under the Apache 2.0 license.
Con Expects you to use its workflow for merging code to master
Phabricator expects you to use all of its workflow to merge code back into the master branch. Though this can be worked around through configuration.
Pro Custom issue fields
The Bug Genie supports having any number of custom issue fields for any type of issue.
Con The enterprise version is free only for small teams
The bug genie enterprise version is free only for teams with up to 10 members. However, the open source version is free for teams of any size.
Pro Open source
MantisBT is a free and open source bug tracker.
Pro Light
Really light and simple. Good for simple management.
Con Little integration
Supports little integration with code repositories, and CI servers
Con Too simple
Not powerful enough for complex management.
Pro Simple installation
It runs on PHP and MySQL, which are ubiquitous nowadays.
Pro Free and opensource
Bugs is free an Open source. Anyone can contribute to it.
Con Based on an outdated Laravel version
The maintainer doesn't feel like porting it to a more recent Laravel version. So unless someone steps up, it may slowly die along with its PHP version.
Pro Bug state can be modified offline
Users can easily change the bug state even while being offline.
Pro Complements distributed version control systems
Bugs everywhere is a distributed bug tracker, it's built to be used in tandem with distributed version control systems.
Con Source code hosted on Gitorious
The source code for Bugs Everywhere seems to be hosted only on Gitorious, which unfortunately has been abandoned, making the source code for Bugs Everywhere unavailable.
Pro Free unlimited projects & team members
Lean Testing is free for an unlimited number of team members or projects.
Pro Slack integration
Can easily be integrated with Slack.
Con Not very popular
Since it's not a very popular solution, there are not as many guides and resources for this out there. Plus, there's also a greater risk of it shutting down one day than other, more popular issue trackers.
Pro Easy to use
Pivotal Tracker is based on Scrum agile methodology. The interface is basically based on columns which you can add to your screen.
Con Not great for tracking issues
PT is a pretty good tool for agile development management. But when you start adding issues and bugs, the project backlog can become quite large because of the fact that it's missing a lot of good issue management tools that other products have.
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