What’s missing from bug and task tracking

They’re so much the same! It’s like a couple of hundred different people had the same idea and chose to build the same system in their own language of choice. Some of these people had (or were themselves) good graphic designers. Those people built relatively professional looking Web sites and offer their tracker as a service.

So many of these people seem like followers of the Rails ethos.

Case in point, how many systems out there have not much, if anything more than ID, Summary, Priority and Severity fields? There are a number that go beyond that. But so many just stick to that basic formula. So lame.

I guess this is a bit of a rant on developers who try to turn the process of them experimenting into a business. I don’t know why it bothers me. And I guess it doesn’t bother me all that much in the long run. I’ve just gotten tired of looking for a better task tracker, finding a new one, and then finding that it’s just the same cookie-cutter app.

Might be time to build one of my own. It will definitely NOT be the cookie cutter. Lots of stuff missing from most trackers I find. And sadly, they’re all the features that I would find really valuable.

*sigh*