BlueBug is a free bug and feature tracking system built on the “KISS” principle (keep it simple, stupid). Accounts are not required to post bugs, everything is straight forward and easy to use. Look below for more information and features.

BlueBug

BlueBug is a free bug and feature tracking system built on the “KISS” principle (keep it simple, stupid). Accounts are not required to post bugs, everything is straight forward and easy to use.

Unzip the files, upload them to your directory. Edit config.php and enter your database information, go to http://bluebig.yoursite.com/install.php enter the admin details and then hit FINISH. Once your user has been created delete the install.php and your ready to go!

System Requirements

This was developed on PHP 5.x but will work on PHP 4.x.
Register globals was ON.
Apache 2 was used, any will do though.
Javascript is required by the users.
MySQL 4.x+ is required and is the only database type supported for now.

Features

• Lightweight: only 3 tables
• Unlimited number of users/admins
• Unlimited number of projects
• Simple roadmap to show completion of bugs/features for a specific project
• Versioning for projects (eg: Demo v1.0 Demo v2.0)
• Ticket Priorities
• Admin menu to quickly change context menus and assign tickets to users
• Sortable tables
• Start / Finish times of tickets
• Status (Open/Closed)

Changelog

• v1.5 – 2/19/2009 – RELEASED
  1. Attachments in tickets/reports
  2. Working API (more here eventually)
  3. To Do List functionality added for a new feature
  4. Quick Add form added to quickly add bugs
  5. Added filtering options to show open/closed tickets, and filter by project
  6. Fixed a WYSIWYG editor bug
  7. Really fixed all short tags this time 
  8. Links are now automatically created when entered into a ticket
  9. Admin’s can edit titles by simply clicking on a ticket and then clicking the edit button next to the ticket’s title
  10. Fixed url for emails not pointing to proper subdirectory
  11. Fixed url issue for bugs being added and emails being sent out for quickadd bugs/features
  12. Fixed report background image not working to show progress
  13. Changed version control system to GIT (maybe some people can contribute now)
  14. NEW LAYOUT!
  15. Fixed various CSS bugs
• v1.2 – 10/27/2008 – RELEASED
  1. Fixed all short tags (if you still get an error let me know, I’m 99.9% sure I got them all)
  2. Script now works properly in sub directories – see demo for in-action.

• v1.1 – 9/9/2008 – RELEASED
  1. Added a line to the config.php to limit registered users to posting. Add $config[registered] = 1; in your config.php file to only allowed registered users (if upgrading).
  2. Added a last insert id function to the Database class.
  3. Administrators now get emails when new tickets have been added.
  4. Assign to list for tickets now properly displays all users.
  5. When a user is assigned to a ticket, they are notified by email.
  6. Priority # changed to text for easier reading.
  7. Users are now emailed when their ticket is closed, if they are registered.
  8. There is now a user administration area in the admin panel.

To Upgrade to 1.5

Please read the readme file included in the zip. You must run the upgrade.php file and make changes to your config.php file.

To Upgrade from v1 to 1.1

Unzip all the files, upload everything except the config.php file, check the config.php for the syntax of the new feature for forcing users to register.