Ancient Bug Tracking

A rite of passage for new developers seems to be writing a crappy bug tracker. This one was a throw-away project I wrote in 2000 during my CompSci internship. Bugsy was written as a custom issue tracking system for software development to be used internally at ARC. It was based on the Zope application server which is written in Python. The inspiration for Bugsy came from Bugzilla, the open-source bug tracker used by the Mozilla project.

Bugsy allows a development team to track the lifetime of a bug using an intuitive web interface. In addition to the features of Bugzilla, Bugsy is more suited to commercial development as it allows a manager to assign developers to a bug and to set deadlines for completion.

As this was an internal project at the Alberta Research Council, no source code or screen shots are available. Bugzilla was used as an example only, meaning no code was used so the Mozilla Public License doesn't apply to Bugsy.