Mantis and Redmine, which one is better to track problems?

Question

I consider using Mantis or Redmine for project management. (Bug tracking)

I know both are really good.

For now, I will not connect it with SVN or Git. (This may happen later)

The main goal is to track problems in business with colleagues.

Please recommend one of them, or you can recommend the other.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I can recommend Redmine. I have been using it for over 2 years, with 25-50 simultaneous users and more than 50 projects.

I went through a lot of updates without any problems.

The database is properly normalized, so if you ever need to get any data, you can do it.

There are many plugins that can cover special needs, if any.

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Edit: At the same time, I had to switch to Jira, but I would return to Redmine at any time if I could.

Answer 2

Redmine was never used, but we used Mantis for about 7-8 years for many projects for our distributed team. One of the advantages is its simplicity. We even wrote a couple of our own extensions, for example. Kanban board (one of the Agile approaches) widely used in our process.

Sometimes I think it looks a bit dated among other modern tools, but it really works for us, and we can extend it with our own PHP code.