Opinions on self-hosted bug tracking?

spork_kitty · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Jul 2019 Posts: 124

I self-host a couple of things, and one of them is code via cgit. I plan to add gitolite to it later on, to be able to host others if they need repo hosting and make collaboration easier, while keeping it lightweight since it's not terribly good hardware. (so, no GitLab, gogs, etc)

A key problem here is my ISP doesn't allow e-mail server hosting, i.e. blocks it from beyond my LAN. That cuts me off from easy bug-tracking.

I can upgrade the line to Business for about $10-15 extra a month, and it comes with a static IP, but the speed is worse. Kind of a bum deal imo -- maybe it comes with guaranteed support or better latency or something -- so it got me wondering about a few other options:

There might be bug-trackers that can send messages to people within the software instead (until I get the scratch for serving e-mail like I want to). Not sure here.
Are there any sites that would allow registering a bugtracker bot to relay e-mail? My guess is "no, hell no" due to spam concerns. Not sure what the search terms are for this, either.
I could issue local e-mail accounts that they have to remote in via SSH to check. Not sure I want to do this since then it'd come with more responsibility than I want.

What would you do in my situation?

Naib · Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2019 6:33 am Post subject:

Have a look at mantisBT
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spork_kitty · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Jul 2019 Posts: 124

Thanks for recommending MantisBT to me. After a little finagling it more or less works, and I'm able to disable the e-mail settings until I can get a connection that'll let me have a mail server. (I'm not in my own place anymore so that'll be a while)

I look forward to being able to track my project issues in one place!

Are there any articles or anything you found helpful in managing your Mantis installation? I've been poking around the official docs and some web searching but even the docs are a little unclear on things like when config options are arrays versus strings.

erm67 · l33t Joined: 01 Nov 2005 Posts: 653 Location: EU

If you only need to send a few email a day google for "SMTP Outbound Relay Service' there are several offers, some even have 100 mail/day free
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