web-based bug tracking for the solo developer

It’s more than a little disappointing that there isn’t a clear winner in this space for the solo developer that wants to host their own bug reporting system, project tracking, various agile enablers, etc. Some of them look nice but wind up being huge resource consumers (Jira consumes 1G of RAM right out of the gate), some are getting crusty (Trac), some have little to no SCM integration, etc.

I’ve installed bugzilla and applied a whole bunch of CSS, but I’m not thrilled with using it. It’s more than I need on some fronts but less than I need on others, the HTML is inconsistent which makes it more work to style or process with javascript, etc. But it works; we’ll see how long I keep it.

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