[DUG] A Friday Qustion on Monday.

[Kyley Harris]

Currently I am looking at mantis, as a open source alternative.. 

On 6/15/05, JeremyN at frontiersoftware.com.au
<JeremyN at frontiersoftware.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > If they released in their advertising "by the way there
> > are 200 known bugs in this new release as listed:" It
> > might make for a fairer choice when deciding to pay.
> 
> I guess there is a trial version for this
> 
> > I have no problem with the borland products.
> > It is the integration features that cannot be disabled
> > properly that effect my development lifecycle.
> 
> There are ways to disable any package in the IDE
> 
> > I hope you are not hinting that if you don't pay 20,000
> > per person for lifecycle tools, then you can't be doing it right?
> 
> nope. Heck we have the enterprise version here which includes StarTeam (one
> of the best version control systems before Borland even bought it) and they
> wont change from TeamSource. The teamsource that gets regular corruptions
> and we are now on our 4th archive in 18 months.
> 
> > Not all tools are built equal, neither are all brains.
> 
> Very true
> 
> > I'm glad you think I'm quote worthy. :) maybe I'll go into a book.
> > It's a funny assumtion to make that I may or may not have clients,
> > and that the code may or may not be a million lines of code?
> > Perhaps a million lines of code with plenty of issues, given the
> > right brain, rather that a lifecycle tool, would only be 100,000
> > lines of code, which lots less bugs.
> 
> If you can effectively managed bug reports, change requests and requirements
> in your head for a large project, good luck to you. The ALM tools are for
> everyone but are more suited to larger development teams. There are plenty
> of alternatives around as well, some every free and open source.
> 
> How do you manage the bug reports and change requests currently? Are you
> using another tool for it?
> 
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