You may have read the news that I finally rejected the GForge code. There were just too many hard-coded paths. There was not enough room for customization or componentization (if I wanted to rip out the project forums and replace them with a phpBB, it would have been very time consuming). The system was very very tied to CVS, and I would rather use subversion than CVS.

Anyhow, now that I've decided not to use GForge, I'm stitching together several different systems. For example, I'm using phpBB for the forums. And I had tentatively picked phpBugTracker as the bugtracking system ( read more about it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpbt/ ). It seems to have made pretty good inroads into separating functional code from presentation code (something that hasn't been completed yet with bugzilla), which is a feature that I'll need in order to integrate it with the rest of the systems on my site.

But I figured it would also be a good idea to solicit your input.

If you know of a bugtracking system that is, for some reason, better than everything else in the world, let me know. Here are some requirements:

 * It should be written in php or perl (like it or not, this is where
my web expertise exists)

 * It should be written in such a way that I can completely replace
the template, changing the visual appearance to suit my own needs.

 * It should be fantastic.

If you know of any bugtracking systems that I should be aware of, let me know.

--Benji

Well, it doesn't meet your first requirement, but I've found Jira at
http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/
is simply fantastic. I've tested nearly every bug-tracker found on the Web
and haven't found anything else comparable.

--
Joel Lucsy