Bert Freudenberg wrote:
Well, "unusual" is a rather kind characterization of it ;)
All issue trackers suck. The thing that gets me with JIRA right now is mostly that it looks unorganized (I dismissed the "Operations" section entirely because it doesn't look like a menu with lots of extra text in it and hidden away in the bottom left) and of course its evil use of applets (thank you, but I do not want to wait 20 seconds for Java to launch and eat half of my precious memory for the rest of the browser session ;-)
Other than that it looks every bit as confusing as Bugzilla, Mantis or Trac. They just all suck.
JIRA is a widely used professional bug tracker, and Immuexa is sponsoring and maintaining this instance for us. Most of us are still not comfortable with it though. I think Milan tried to document a bit of it here:
That actually answered my question: "it is not clear how to create a new bug without being logged in". Indeed. There just doesn't seem to be a way.
Cheers, - Andreas