If you're after a bug tracking system or Wiki for a personal project, Atlassian have come up with the goods, and are providing a 5 user license for each for $5 for the next few days.

Okay, there's a catch, that's USD5+GST. Still. Who cares, $8 for a legal license of an awesome bug tracking system...

http://www.atlassian.com/starter/

Enjoy.

PS: d0mino, where were you with this? :P

The Trac Project

nice 1 bruva!

The goal was to sell 25K of licenses in 5 days.. heh, looks like we'll do it in a day.
You also get full support for a year. (or more).

Get in quick!

/sales

For me the timing for this couldn't have come at a better time, as I'd been looking around for free bug/issue tracking solutions - I wanted to use JIRA, but just can't justify the cost.

Of course I still need to host it, but that can be resolved easily enough.

We use both Trac and Mantis.

Those products look really good though Raven, good heads-up.

PS: d0mino, where were you with this? :P

wuh ??

We use Jira and Mantis at work. Mainly Jira for our internal bug tracking and Mantis for external bug tracking. I much prefer Jira, way more customisable.

For me the timing for this couldn't have come at a better time, as I'd been looking around for free bug/issue tracking solutions - I wanted to use JIRA, but just can't justify the cost.

Samesies. Since we had a developer leave recently (any .NET/C# senior devs in Melbourne want a job?) I've had to tackle some of the easier bugs and having something to track them with would be awesome.

Well, let see.. target hit in ~ 24 hours. $25,245 USD @ 12:52 AEST. (And it all goes to Charity!) Hmmm, 1 day down, 4 to go.. Not sure what's happening with the rest of the promotion. We might kill it (I reckon not).

For hosting:

EC2
16 degrees are offering free installation and hosting for 3 months.
or Atlassian host it.

There's been a few peeps buying the combo with 2..3 year maintenance. Great for a small startup or techie.


last edited by dranged at 13:12:05 21/Apr/09

wuh ??

Sorry. I meant dranged not d0mino. Easy mistake :P

I found out about Atlassian's hosting of it a few months ago, but it's simply *way* too expensive for my needs. I'll pay $150 a year. I won't pay $299 a month. I might have to follow up on the EC2 hosting of it rather than running it on my doze box at home. Would love to hear from others roughly how much CPU time it uses in a low-use environment.

As it scales up the hosting costs will decrease. Hosting is definitely a watch this space, but, if you you're a small shop EC2 can let you get away with ~$15-20 a month.

Whats it need to host it? If I already have hosting elsewhere with Mysql 5 and PHP 4/5, will it be fine to chuck up there?

Seems like a pretty uber deal, I think I'll get them both even if I don't have an immediate use for them, at that price you'd be stupid not to!

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Another happy tight ass Jira user.

last edited by TicMan at 14:01:35 21/Apr/09

woohoo!

It'll run under anything. Tomcat is preferable, but you can use glassfish/Orion/etc if you're so inclined.

Any DB will work.

Whats it need to host it? If I already have hosting elsewhere with Mysql 5 and PHP 4/5, will it be fine to chuck up there?

Seems like a pretty uber deal, I think I'll get them both even if I don't have an immediate use for them, at that price you'd be stupid not to!

No, since it runs under a Java container.
To run the bundled standalone version, you still need access to be able to run it as a server process, so unfortunately I can't just chuck it on my hosting account (LAMP).

Bugger. I thought the A in LAMP could easily front a Tomcat. Probably a hosting option.

Apache can call out to Java, but Tomcat can't load mod_php.

confluence is pretty cool, second place i work at its in use

It's a f***en beast mate, the s*** people hang off it

JIRA is hell extensible also

I'd like to see it in the department were in as were still running twiki for holding auto generated output from scripts like holding router information, console or switch data. I'm sure its possible too but havent had the time.

I know of two extremely well known networking vendors who use Confluence and JIRA extensively for both these things.

Adobe are still using JIRA for Flex bugtracking, yet it seems that everyone I talk to speaks ill of it - I on the other hand find it great.

There's an ex-Thoughtworks guy I have to work along who constantly rubbishes it, without any real actual valid reasons though :(

We actually just got this at work for $5 too.

JIRA is f***ing rad! I only got around to installing it yesterday afternoon but I can see the benefits already. Best US$5 ever spent.

Just wish JIRA supported SQLite embedded rather than HSQL.
Gotta install MySQL on my 2k3 server tonight to use with it :/

You could use MSSQL Express (freebie). I used our MSSQL Server for the DB while still hosting the app on one of my Linux servers.