Today was a great day for QUESTS! I throw away the rubbish, I bought coffee, I even helped my wife cleaning up our house in the countryside...
When GitHub rolled out its simple but powerful Issue Tracker, I finally realized that GitHub was the only thing I needed to manage my open source projects: I didn't need to use LightHouse or RubyForge anymore, because GitHub's issues were more than enough for me.
If you have a project hosted on GitHub yourself, you already know what you can do with GitHub issues; you can:
But the important thing is that GitHub issues are very snappy, simple and FAST.
Like with to do list, I don't think you need 12,789 fields for your bugs and features, possibility to add attachments, folders or subfolders: you need something that doesn't get in your way. At least that's the way I see it, and GitHub issues are perfect for the job, and for managing your entire project backlog.
Of course, like all things, you must use them properly, following some kind of logic. Here's my take on that.
Fossil is a software configuration management system. Fossil is software that is designed to control and track the development of a software project and to record the history of the project. There are many such systems in use today. Fossil strives to distinguish itself from the others by being extremely simple to setup and operate.
