Debbugs

Debbugs
Original author(s)	Ian Jackson
Initial release	1994 (1994)^[1]

Stable release	2.4.1 / June 6, 2003 (2003-06-06)
Repository	bugs-master.debian.org/debbugs-source/debbugs.git
Written in	Perl, others
Operating system	Debian
Platform	Linux
Type	Issue tracking system
License	GNU General Public License
Website	www.debian.org/Bugs/

Debbugs is the software powering the Debian project's issue tracking system. A unique aspect is that it doesn't have any form of web-interface to edit bug reports - all modification is done through email. Debbugs was mainly written by Ian Jackson, former Debian project leader.

Debbugs consists of a set of scripts which maintain a database of problem reports. The scripts have been parameterised so that they can be used for other projects besides Debian. The system runs on Unix-like operating systems such as Unix and Linux. Most of the source code is written in Perl. It is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License.

It is strongly recommended^[2] that people use the reportbug program, when reporting bugs in Debian.

History

Debbugs started as a rudimentary issue tracking system in 1994.^[1] The software was generalized starting from 1997 but was only officially released as Debbugs 1 in January 1999.^[3]

Soon after the GNOME project abandoned Debbugs, the KDE project also switched to Bugzilla in 2002.^[4]

Deployments

The oldest and largest deployment of Debbugs is the Debian project's.^[5] As of March 2015, the Debian debbugs instance had handled over 730,000 bug reports.^[6]^[7]

The GNU Project has deployed a public instance of debbugs^[8] that can be used by GNU software or GNU Savannah-hosted free software.^[9]

Integration

Ubuntu's Launchpad recognizes and integrates with Debian's debbugs instance.^[10]

References

1 2 Jackson, Ian. "Debian bug tracking software". Retrieved 16 June 2013.
↑ "Reporting bugs in Debian". Debian Project. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
↑ debbugs source package's changelog
↑ Naber, Daniel (18 September 2002). "KDE Switches To Bugzilla".
↑ "Debian bug tracking system". Debian Project. Retrieved 2010-06-07.
↑ "Debian Bug report logs - #780000". Debian Project. 2015-03-07. Retrieved 2015-04-13.
↑ "Debian Bug report logs - #50004". Debian Project. 1999-11-12. Retrieved 2015-04-13.
↑ "GNU Bug Tracker". GNU Project. Retrieved 2010-06-07.
↑ "Using this system to track your project's bugs". GNU Project. Retrieved 2011-09-15.
↑ "Bug trackers - Debian Bug tracker". Ubuntu. Retrieved 2010-06-07.

External links

Debian bug tracking system
Debbugs source code
Debian wiki's page on Debian's issue tracking system, with a good part of information on Debbugs in general
Debian bug report logs as they shown in November 1995, reflecting an early state of Debbugs

Bug tracking systems

Years indicate the date of first stable release.

Client-server

Free software	GNATS (1992) Debbugs (1994 / 1999) Bugzilla (1998) Request Tracker (1999) MantisBT (2000) Roundup (2001) The Bug Genie (2003) Trac (2004) Tuleap (2011) Redmine (2006) Apache Allura (2009) Maniphest (2010) Apache Bloodhound (2012)

Proprietary	TestTrack (1998) FogBugz (2000) Axosoft (2002) JIRA (2002) Team Foundation Server (2005) YouTrack (2009)

Distributed

Fossil (2006)

Proprietary	Team Foundation Server (2013) Visual Studio Team Services (2014)

Hosted

SourceForge (1999)
GNU Savannah (2000)
OSDN (2002)
Launchpad (2004)
Assembla (2005)
CodePlex (2006)
GitHub (2008)
Bitbucket (2008)
Bontq (2010)
YouTrack (2011)
GitLab (2011)

Category
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