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Add to SafariWhen comparing Bugs vs b, the Slant community recommends Bugs for most people. In the question“What are the best free bug-tracking tools for programming? ” Bugs is ranked 7th while b is ranked 31st. The most important reason people chose Bugs is:
It runs on PHP and MySQL, which are ubiquitous nowadays.
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Pros
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.
Pro No setup needed
You start by simply adding your first bug with hg b add <bug title>.
Pro Fully distributed
It lives with your code. It is suitable for a completely distributed multi-user workflow without central points of failure. Users need not be online to add or change bugs.
Pro 'Get things done, not organized'
b follows the principle, "the only way to make your bug list prettier is to fix some damn bugs."
Cons
Con Based on an outdated Laravel version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.
