Bug tracking software which uses Firebird database

[Bruce Eglington]

Can anybody suggest a bug trcking package which uses Firebird as its database engine. Any chance that Eurekalog may support this more directly in future?

Thanks
Bruce

[Alex]

Hi,

You're the first to ask this feature. It can be implemented, if more customers will ask for it. You can post this as suggestion to our suggestions section: http://news.eurekalog.com/forumdisplay.php?f=10

[Kevin G. McCoy]

EurekaLog is already compatible with a number of bug tracking systems.

While Mantis does not support Firebird, it does support MySQL, MS SQL
and PostresSQL. There are a couple other bug tracking packages (FogBugz
for one) that likely use other databases.

The community version of MySQL is free for the downloading, and it can share a machine with Firebird.

EurekaLog can communicate with Mantis and FogBugz and automatically add exception reports to it.

Best regards,

Kevin G. McCoy

On 8/3/2010 10:27 AM, Bruce Eglington wrote:

Can anybody suggest a bug trcking package which uses Firebird as its database engine. Any chance that Eurekalog may support this more directly in future?

[Bruce Eglington]

Hello Kevin,

thanks. I realise that one can share a machine for both MYSQL and Firebird but so many Delphi developers use Firebird that it would make sense to have tracking systems such as Mantis also use Firebird as a database engine.

Cheers
Bruce


EurekaLog is already compatible with a number of bug tracking systems.

While Mantis does not support Firebird, it does support MySQL, MS SQL
and PostresSQL. There are a couple other bug tracking packages
(FogBugz for one) that likely use other databases.

The community version of MySQL is free for the downloading, and it can share a machine with Firebird.

EurekaLog can communicate with Mantis and FogBugz and automatically
add exception reports to it.

Best regards,

Kevin G. McCoy

On 8/3/2010 10:27 AM, Bruce Eglington wrote:

Can anybody suggest a bug trcking package which uses Firebird as its database engine. Any chance that Eurekalog may support this more directly in future?

[Alex]

Hi,

I think it's an issue more of bug-tracker, than EurekaLog.

Sure, EurekaLog can store bugs in any database pretty easily (you can do it yourself just in few lines of code), but what's the point of having back-end without front-end? You can't view issue, you can't edit them, you can't close them - until you write SQL queries for this.

[Kevin G. McCoy]

Bruce,

The ELF viewer that comes with EL is not bad, but (IMHO) it is not the
best way to manage a large number of bugs across multiple projects. The feature you propose is just an extension of the existing ELF file viewer. I don't really see the value, unless you want to build a bug management system yourself - a non-trivial task.

If you are managing more than one or two projects, there is no
substitute for a true bug management system. Since there is at least one free one out there and it is compatible with EL, it doesn't make sense to reinvent the wheel. :-) Another good reason to use a bug management system is the problem with end-user email. End-users tend to do all sorts of silly things with their email and firewall settings that are not always compatible with EL sending error reports back to the developers. A web-based bug management system works around that problem almost flawlessly.

I still use the ELF viewer to open ELF files stored in my bug management system, but I clear out all the bugs from the viewer after viewing a new incident.

It is much easier to manage exception and feature request reports in a full-up bug management system.

I use Mantis to manage 17 projects each with several versions out in the wild, spread across several states here in the USA. My work day would be a living nightmare without EL and Mantis playing nice together :-) Best regards,

Kevin G. McCoy



On 8/4/2010 10:52 AM, Bruce Eglington wrote:
thanks. I realise that one can share a machine for both MYSQL and Firebird but so many Delphi developers use Firebird that it would make sense to have tracking systems such as Mantis also use Firebird as a database engine.