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>Bugzilla is the leading open-source/free software bug tracking
system. It boasts many advanced features, including:
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>Powerful searching</P
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>User-configurable email notifications of bug changes</P
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>Full change history</P
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>Inter-bug dependency tracking and graphing</P
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>Excellent attachment management</P
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>Integrated, product-based, granular security schema</P
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>Fully security-audited, and runs under Perl's taint mode</P
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>A robust, stable RDBMS back-end</P
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>Completely customisable and/or localisable web user
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>Additional XML, email and console interfaces</P
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>Extensive configurability</P
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>Smooth upgrade pathway between versions</P
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>Bugzilla is very adaptable to various situations. Known uses
currently include IT support queues, Systems Administration deployment
management, chip design and development problem tracking (both
pre-and-post fabrication), and software and hardware bug tracking for
luminaries such as Redhat, NASA, Linux-Mandrake, and VA Systems.
Combined with systems such as
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provides a powerful, easy-to-use configuration management solution.</P
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