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<chapter id="variants" xreflabel="Bugzilla Variants and Competitors">
  <title>Bugzilla Variants and Competitors</title>

  <para>I created this section to answer questions about Bugzilla competitors
  and variants, then found a wonderful site which covers an awful lot of what
  I wanted to discuss. Rather than quote it in its entirety, I'll simply
  refer you here: 
  <ulink url="http://linas.org/linux/pm.html">
  http://linas.org/linux/pm.html</ulink>
  </para>

  <section id="rhbugzilla" xreflabel="Red Hat Bugzilla">
    <title>Red Hat Bugzilla</title>

    <para>Red Hat Bugzilla is probably the most popular Bugzilla variant on
    the planet. One of the major benefits of Red Hat Bugzilla is the ability
    to work with Oracle, MySQL, and PostGreSQL databases serving as the
    back-end, instead of just MySQL. Dave Lawrence has worked very hard to
    keep Red Hat Bugzilla up-to-date, and many people prefer the
    snappier-looking page layout of Red Hat Bugzilla to the default
    Mozilla-standard formatting.</para>

    <para>URL: 
    <ulink url="http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/">
    http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/</ulink>
    </para>
  </section>

  <section id="variant-fenris" xreflabel="Loki Bugzilla, a.k.a. Fenris">
    <title>Loki Bugzilla (Fenris)</title>

    <para>Fenris can be found at 
    <ulink url="http://fenris.lokigames.com/">
    http://fenris.lokigames.com</ulink>

    . It is a fork from Bugzilla.</para>
  </section>

  <section id="variant-issuezilla" xreflabel="Issuezilla">
    <title>Issuezilla</title>

    <para>Issuezilla is another fork from Bugzilla, and seems nearly as
    popular as the Red Hat Bugzilla fork. Some Issuezilla team members are
    regular contributors to the Bugzilla mailing list/newsgroup. Issuezilla
    is not the primary focus of bug-tracking at tigris.org, however. Their
    Java-based bug-tracker, 
    <xref linkend="variant-scarab" />

    , is under heavy development and looks promising!</para>

    <para>URL: 
    <ulink url="http://issuezilla.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectHome">
    http://issuezilla.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectHome</ulink>
    </para>
  </section>

  <section id="variant-scarab"
  xreflabel="Scarab, a newfangled Java-based issue tracker">
    <title>Scarab</title>

    <para>Scarab is a promising new bug-tracking system built using Java
    Serlet technology. As of this writing, no source code has been released
    as a package, but you can obtain the code from CVS.</para>

    <para>URL: 
    <ulink url="http://scarab.tigris.org/">http://scarab.tigris.org</ulink>
    </para>
  </section>

  <section id="variant-perforce" xreflabel="Using Perforce to track bugs">
    <title>Perforce SCM</title>

    <para>Although Perforce isn't really a bug tracker, it can be used as
    such through the 
    <quote>jobs</quote>

    functionality.</para>

    <para>
    <ulink url="http://www.perforce.com/perforce/technotes/note052.html">
    </ulink>

    http://www.perforce.com/perforce/technotes/note052.html</para>
  </section>

  <section id="variant-sourceforge" xreflabel="SourceForge">
    <title>SourceForge</title>

    <para>SourceForge is more of a way of coordinating geographically
    distributed free software and open source projects over the Internet than
    strictly a bug tracker, but if you're hunting for bug-tracking for your
    open project, it may be just what the software engineer ordered!</para>

    <para>URL: 
    <ulink url="http://www.sourceforge.net">
    http://www.sourceforge.net</ulink>
    </para>
  </section>
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