When comparing FogBugz vs Gitea, the Slant community recommends Gitea for most people. In the question“What are the best bug/issue tracking tools for small development teams?” Gitea is ranked 5th while FogBugz is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose Gitea is:
Easy to install and setup. Can run on a VPS with 1 core CPU and 256MB RAM.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Helpdesk features
Customers can send emails for further processing.
Pro Evidence-Based Scheduling
EBS produces ship date probability distributions, see here.
Pro Backed by big company
The same company behind Stack Overflow and Trello.
Pro Intuitive UI
The UI is very well thought through. All the right stuff is in the right places.
Pro Light-weight
Easy to install and setup. Can run on a VPS with 1 core CPU and 256MB RAM.
Pro Open source and maintained by community
Unlike Gogs, which is maintained primarily by its creator.
Pro Intuitive interface
Easy to navigate around and feels very natural in general.
Pro Non-memory consuming
Just like Gogs, but with new features and fixed bugs. Unlike GitLab which is enormous.
Pro Wiki and issues
Like GitHub, a wiki and issues (bugtracking) can be added to a repository.
Pro Fast pace of development
New features, constantly updated.
Pro Like Gogs but with faster bug fixes
If you love Gogs but were frustrated with the long wait for bugs to be fixed, this is for you.
Pro Most common platforms
Versions available for Linux, Mac and Windows. This is possible because Gitea is developed in the Go language which makes it compact and fast too. Only one executable is needed.
Pro Easy install with MariaDB back-end
No problems getting to work with MariaDB.
Pro Simple to install/written in GO
Pro Package Registry
Supports NuGet, npm, Cargo, Composer, Maven, RubyGems etc.
To work with the NuGet package registry, you can use command-line interface tools as well as NuGet features in various IDEs like Visual Studio.
Pro Runs perfect on a Raspberry Pi 3
Thanks to its light-weight and simple integration.
Pro Customizable Templates
All templates can be overridden.
Pro Focus only on key features
And if you want extra features, you can use web hooks.
Cons
Con Self-hosting is pricey
The minimum is 50 users at $15 per user per month.
Con Cannot be used without an account
You cannot show someone a ticket that does not have an account.
