Lighthouse App, Svn and you
August 13th, 2007
Last week we decided that our ad-hoc issue tracking system wasn’t good enough for the serious development we are doing now. We tried Trac, Basecamp and iGTD with email submission. None of them really impressed us for various reasons. Trac was the best of the bunch for bug tracking but never really let us spread our wings. Basecamp is a great app for what it is meant to do but not the best for bug tracking. I setup iGTD to accept tasks from the boss via email, the problem then was closing the loop, when I was done it was up to me to let the boss know.
Enter Lighthouse
What a brilliant piece of software, it’s written by the Active Reload guys who also wrote Mephisto the blogging software this blog is written in. The brilliance of this software comes of it’s simplicity. It does the job I want it to do almost perfectly.
It doesn’t make any assumptions about things like Bug Priority and such, however it does have a standard tagging system and you can save searches into “bins” that are available on the bug searching screen, we have settled on, low,normal,high,highest and URGENT. See below.
I also implemented the SVN integration, the FAQ can be found here Now all I do is put a proper comment in the SVN commit that explains the changes and has the lighthouse syntax in it, an example might be “Changes to log form [#15 state:resolved]”. A commit with that comment in it closes the ticket as well, brilliant.
So the aim of this post was really just to send props to Rick and the team at Active Reload, it’s great to see an app by the geeks, for the geeks.
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