Issue tracking

All programming projects have one thing in common: there is always more to do. Some things that need doing are bug fixes; others are enhancements such as cleaning up and refactorlng existing code, adding tests, and writing documentation. but before your office wall becomes a collage of sticky-note reminders, you might want to try an issue tracker instead. In this article, we describe two open-source issue-tracking software packages: Roundup, an implementation of the winning design in Los Alamos National Laboratoryʹs Software Carpentry contest and Bugzilla (from the GNU project).