posted 15 years ago
Desktop-based issue trackers are out of favor. Since bug/issue tracking is by its very nature something normally done among a group of people using separate computers, it's a natural for a client-server implementation. And these days, there's rarely a compelling reason for writing a standalone client-server app when the web browser is already installed. Quite the opposite, since keeping client software installed and up-to-date is a drain on the corporate infrastructure.
Trac is a very popular tool for issue management. It's even available as a VM appliance, so you don't have to do a lot of complex setup work. Jira isn't open-source, although, like IntelliJ, they often make it available at no cost for people who are themselves working on open-source projects.
Jira itself is written in Java and uses a fair amount of open-source code internally (their free licenses are a way of returning the favor). Since it's closed-source, the only parts of the product that you actually can see source code for are the open-source inclusions. I forget what Trac is written in. It is open-source, however.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
