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Add to SafariWhen comparing The Bug Genie vs Fossil, the Slant community recommends Fossil for most people. In the question“What are the best self-hosted bug trackers?” Fossil is ranked 3rd while The Bug Genie is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose Fossil is:
Fossil includes source code management, bug tracking, a wiki, and technotes. It even includes its own web server, though it can fairly easily be incorporated into other webservers.
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Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Wiki
Built-in Wiki with MarkDown support.
Pro Custom issue fields
The Bug Genie supports having any number of custom issue fields for any type of issue.
Pro Open-source
The Bug Genie is a free and open source tool.
Pro Very complete
Fossil includes source code management, bug tracking, a wiki, and technotes.
It even includes its own web server, though it can fairly easily be incorporated into other webservers.
Pro Self-contained
A Fossil repository is contained in a single file.
Pro Cross-platform
Fossil can run on Linux, Mac, BSD derivatives and on Windows.
Pro Very easy to configure as self-hosted
Single, stand-alone executable, including web server.
Pro Needs very few server resources
Since Fossil is a distributed VCS on top of being a bug tracker, it needs very few server resources.
Cons
Con Only a web interface or CLI
Fossil's bug tracker only works with the web interface or the command-line interface. There's no native GUI client supporting it.
There are some independent GUI clients out there, but none of them support Fossil's full range of abilities.
