The two most popular open source bug tracking systems are Mantisbt and Bugzilla

I believe in open source. But, there have been too many events around open source in past couple of years that it is hard to believe that open source is not another commercialized entity. Companies posing themselves and based on open source technology in turn aren’t really open source in their products and offerings, and this brings an interesting and questionable point at times ‘what’s cooking behind those open source company doors?’. How many companies can we list that work towards the actual cause and benefit of open source, and …

I’d my first interaction today with Tony Wasserman - Executive Director, Center for Open Source Investigation (COSI) and learnt a bit about OpenBBR (Business Readiness Rating) - a model for rating open source software. I totally agree with the idea behind this project and its cause. With various open source stack certifications in the offering it was getting clear enough that someone is taking a lead on looking into how to make open source more usable and acceptable in places where there’s a higher emphasis on quality and …

I’ve been keeping myself busy (hence, no posts in past three weeks) with RoR development on a small project which I’ve taken along with my three person team. Its been fun so far; and working with Ruby on Rails (RoR) is an added bonus. The rapid development approach of RoR really drives the agility through the project. It reminds me of words like agile, rapid, RAD, scrum, etc. Its fantastic. But there is a learning curve especially when you aren’t so familiar with the underlying scripting language such as …