Yes, its a cutsie name, but The Bug Genie is a PHP bug tracking system that is the opposite of Trac in the best possible ways.
First of all you create a MySQL database and copy The Bug Genie files to your web server. Then you go to your website, where The Web Genie greets you with a short setup. At the end, it gives you an administrator login and password and you’re ready to go.
It’s that simple to set up. No command line required.
The help is built right into the system in the form of little question marks strategically placed that you can click on. They usually answer any beginner questions you’ll have.
How to create users? Well you can do it quite easily, but why bother? Just let your users sign themselves up with their email address and create an account. Just like WordPress.
It’s very powerful and has Subversion integration. Actually, for my purposes, it’s a bit too powerful for the minor issue tracking I need, but after having worked at Microsoft and using their bug tracking, The Bug Genie seems better. It’s certainly prettier, and prettier than everything else out there as well.
I predict great things for The Bug Genie for a lot of great reasons, but maybe for no other reason than nobody can set up any of the other bug trackers without dedicating their life to them.
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