The Bug Genie

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The Bug Genie
BugGenie logo.jpg
Original author(s) Daniel A. Eikeland and Ray Jensen
Developer(s) The Bug Genie team
Initial release September 23, 2003; 21 years ago (2003-09-23)[1]
Stable release

4.3.1  (March 25, 2019; 5 years ago (2019-03-25))

[±]
Preview release none [±]
Written in PHP, JavaScript
Operating system Cross-platform
Available in English, French, German, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
Type Bug tracking software
Ticket tracking software
License(s) Mozilla Public License v1.1
Website thebuggenie.com

The Bug Genie is free open-source XAMPP-based bug tracking and project management software. Main functionality includes issue tracking, bug reporting, and project management, and it includes a feedback and publishing system as well.[2]


Product history

The Bug Genie was first called "Bugs - The Bug Genie" or simply BUGS. It was originally developed by Daniel A. Eikeland and Ray Jensen of Zegenie Studios, a small open-source software development company in Norway.[3][4] On September 5, 2003, a SourceForge project was started for the software[5], with its first release arriving as version 1.0 a few weeks later.[1] Zegenie Studios increased the web presence of the software when on November 15 it launched its website for the product.[4] Development steadily continued on the software until shortly after the March 23, 2005 announcement Ruffdogs — a North American-based Linux system strategy, support, and training company — had acquired the software from Zenegie.[3] A release candidate for version 1.7 was released 12 days later[1].

Ruffdogs released a few more updates for BUGS on SourceForge — 1.7.1 on July 4, 2005[6] and 1.7.2 on July 9, 2006[1] — before being acquired by business development company Holonyx, Inc. on March 1, 2007.[7][8][9] The new entity Holonyx Ruffdogs continued the open-source tradition with the software as co-developers of the BUGS software.[10]

Upon joining Holonyx, Ruffdogs spent the next two years putting out a few minor releases (in the forms of 1.8 and 1.9) while ultimately working towards releasing a major update in version 2.0, released to SourceForge on January 2, 2009.[11] The new 2.0 version featured improved user management, search functionality, messaging, and issue reporting.[12] Shortly after, sometime between the 2.0.1 and 2.0.4 releases in early 2009, the name of the software changed simply to "The Bug Genie."[11] Version 3.0 was released on January 31, 2011, featuring integrated project management tools and an integrated wiki.[13]

Features

The primary features of The Bug Genie include[2][14]:

  • issue tracking
  • project management
  • integrated wiki
  • version control integration
  • customizable workflow
  • changeable interface
  • RSS support
  • command line tools

Hardware/software requirements

An installation of The Bug Genie requires:

  • a web server, with URL rewriting capabilities
  • PHP version 5.3.0 or later
  • MySQL 5.0 or greater or PostgreSQL 8.2 or greater
  • the PHP gmp extension
  • the PHP gd and imap extensions for statistics and e-mail support

Consult the FAQ for more information.

Videos, screenshots, and other media

  • A few demonstration videos (circa 2009) can be found on YouTube.
  • Screenshots of The Bug Genie can be found on Softpedia.
  • The Bug Genie live demo can be found here.

Entities using The Bug Genie

Further reading

External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "The Bug Genie Home / Archive / 1.x". SourceForge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/bugs-bug-genie/files/Archive/1.x/. Retrieved 28 October 2012. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Popov, Dmitri (3 August 2010). "Debug & fix software with help from The Bug Genie". Linux User & Developer. http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/tutorials/debug-fix-software-with-help-from-the-bug-genie. Retrieved 28 October 2012. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Ruffdogs Acquires BUGS". PRWeb. 23 March 2005. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/03/prweb221410.htm. Retrieved 28 October 2012. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Zegenie Studios". Zegenie Studios. 8 April 2004. Archived from the original on 08 April 2004. http://web.archive.org/web/20040408005431/http://www.zegeniestudios.net/. Retrieved 28 October 2012. 
  5. ↑ "The Bug Genie". SourceForge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/bugs-bug-genie/. Retrieved 28 October 2012. 
  6. ↑ "Diff of /www-apps/bugs-bug-genie/ChangeLog". Gentoo.org. http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/www-apps/bugs-bug-genie/ChangeLog?hideattic=0&r1=1.6&r2=1.7&sortby=author. Retrieved 28 October 2012. 
  7. ↑ Bastian, Kristen (30 March 2007). "Ruffdogs joins consultants in Holonyx kennel". Holonyx, Inc. http://holonyx.com/NCBR_press_release.html. Retrieved 28 October 2012. 
  8. ↑ Acott, Garret (16 June 2007). "Ruffdogs-Holonyx". Simple Machines. http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=37294.0. Retrieved 28 October 2012. 
  9. ↑ Acott, Garret (27 December 2007). "Why I release software under the GPL". Ubuntu Forums. http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-650941.html. Retrieved 28 October 2012. 
  10. ↑ "Holonyx - Software Development". Holonyx, Inc. 24 April 2009. http://www.holonyx.com/software-development.html. Retrieved 28 October 2012. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 "The Bug Genie Home / Archive / 2.x". SourceForge. http://sourceforge.net/projects/bugs-bug-genie/files/Archive/2.x/. Retrieved 28 October 2012. 
  12. ↑ "BUGS 2 Released". Ruffdogs. 5 January 2009. Archived from the original on 08 February 2009. http://web.archive.org/web/20090208235051/http://www.thebuggenie.com/b2/modules/publish/articles.php?article_id=11. Retrieved 28 October 2012. 
  13. ↑ "The Bug Genie 3.0 Released". The Bug Genie development team. 1 February 2011. http://thebuggenie.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/the-bug-genie-3-0-released/. Retrieved 28 October 2012. 
  14. ↑ "The Bug Genie - Loved Features". The Bug Genie development team. http://www.thebuggenie.com/features. Retrieved 28 October 2012. 
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