Mantis is a free, open source and popular web-based bugtracking system. Mantis is written in the PHP scripting language and works with MySQL, MS SQL, and PostgreSQL databases and a webserver.
Mantis has been installed on Mac OS, Windows, Linux, OS/2, and others. Almost any web browser should be able to function as a client.
NOTE: Current Mac OS X stacks do not work on Leopard.
Here are some key features of "BitNami Mantis Stack":
· Free (GPL License)
· Easy to Install (both internally and in hosted environments).
· Easy to evaluate
· Demo
· InstantMantis - Be up and running in 2 minutes (not recommended for production use)
· Simple User Experience
· Web Based
· Supports any platform that runs PHP (Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris, AS400/i5, etc)
· Available in 68 localizations.
· Simple/Advanced Issue Pages
· Multiple Projects per instance
· Support for Projects, Sub-Projects, and Categories.
· Users can have a different access level per project
· Changelog Support
· Roadmap
· My View Page
· Search and Filter
· Full Text Search
· Simple/Advanced Filters
· Shared Filters (across users / projects)
· Built-in Reporting (reports / graphs)
· Custom Fields
· Email notifications
· Users can monitor specific issues
· Attachments (can be saved on webserver or in database - can also backup to an FTP account)
· Issue Change History
· RSS Feeds (news, issues matching saved filters, issues matching a specific project)
· Customizable issue workflow
· Sponsorships Support - users are able to place bounties or sponsorships for specific issues, also developers can track such sponsorships / payments.
· Anonymous Access
· Signup with Captcha and Email Confirmation.
· Self-Service Reset Password Support
· Export to csv, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word
· Ability to extended functionality through hook (custom) functions.
· Reporting issues via Email (available as a patch - currently being integrated)
· Reporting Issues via a custom form on your website (Anonymantis).
· Source Control Integration (SVN and CVS).
· No limit on the number of users, issues, or projects.
· Wiki Integration (optional)
· Time Tracking
· Ability to send messages to messages to other users in regards to a specific issue.
· Public / Private Projects - Public project accessible to all users, private are only accessible to those explicitly added.
· Public / Private Notes - Private notes are accessible to users with a specific access level to the relevant project.
· Public / Private Issues - Private issues are accessible to users with a specific access level to the relevant project.
· Issue Relationships
· Issue Relationship Graphs (uses "dot" library).
· Attachment Auto-Preview
· Public / Private News (news can be associated with a specific project, or with all projects).
· Sticky Issues (always appear on the top of the issues list).
· Group Actions: actions can be applied on multiple issues.
· Easy hyperlinks to issues and issue notes (e.g. #123 hyper links to issue number 123).
· Ability to view recently visited issues (the last 5 visited issues are visible by default at the top right corner).
· Authentication
· Default Mantis Authentication (recommended)
· LDAP Integration
· HTTP Basic Authentication Support
· Active Directory Integration (patches available)
· Chat Integration (optional)
· Multi-DBMS Support - Mantis uses ADODB as an abstraction library to support multiple DBMSes.
· MySQL
· MS SQL
· PostgreSQL
· Oracle (experimental)
· DB2 (in progress)
· Webservice (SOAP) interface (MantisConnect)
· A SOAP web service that is implemented in PHP and can be consumed from any language that supports SOAP web services.
· .NET Client Library
· Java Client Library
· Cocoa Client Library
· Eclipse Plugin
· NAnt Task
· Mantis Notifier
· Support for mobile devices (MantisWAP).
· Online Chat (optional integration)
· There are community projects that integrate it with content management and project management too
· Twitter Integration allowing users to monitor updates (Added in release 1.1.0a4)
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Update Mantis to 1.2.5
· Update PHP to 5.2.17
· Update phpMyAdmin to 3.3.10
· Update AWS SDK to 1.2.6
· Update MySQL 5.1.56
· Include libmcrypt 1.2.8
