From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 25 14:14:45 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6868216A4CE for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:14:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mirapoint2.tis.cwru.edu (mirapoint2.TIS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.104.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DA4343D55 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:14:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ttt@cwru.edu) Received: from [129.22.151.155] (tagon.ENGINEERING.CWRU.Edu [129.22.151.155]) by mirapoint2.tis.cwru.edu (MOS 3.5.4-GR) with ESMTP id DMF75575 (AUTH ttt); Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:14:41 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <421F32CD.7010009@cwru.edu> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:14:37 -0500 From: Tom Trelvik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050223091616.5202.qmail@web51603.mail.yahoo.com> <421DDF34.6030806@cwru.edu> <001101c51ac9$43bd8650$6500a8c0@satellite> In-Reply-To: <001101c51ac9$43bd8650$6500a8c0@satellite> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: recommended trouble ticketing system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:14:45 -0000 (redirecting back to the list) I've not used specialized bug tracking software before, so I'm not sure what kind of bug tracking specific features they might offer, but RT is, as the name suggests, just a generic request tracking system, and I don't see why it couldn't also be used for bug tracking. Normal usage typically involves a user sending an email to an RT address (of your choice) to make a request (of any type). RT then sends an email to a list of people who are set to respond to that RT queue, one of them will then respond and "take" (ownership of) the ticket and when done, change the status to resolved (there are other allowable statuses, as well). When necessary, multiple people can get involved with a given ticket, and/or it can be redirected to someone else as needed. Tom dave wrote: > Hi, > Question on rt, is it a general bug tracking software package as well? > I'm looking for something like gnats which i have not been able to get > working or bugzilla which i do not like because it puts email cleartext on > the page. I've heard good things about rt, but don't know if it'll suit my > situation. > Thanks. > Dave. >