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Add to SafariWhen comparing Redmine vs Fossil, the Slant community recommends Redmine for most people. In the question“What are the best self-hosted bug trackers?” Redmine is ranked 2nd while Fossil is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose Redmine is:
Redmine is a free and open source tool.
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Pros
Pro Free and 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.
Pro Built in Integration for GIT, SVN, & CVS
Pro Built In Wiki
Pro Plugins support
If there is additional features set you want you can find or write plugins to extend the ability.
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.
