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GNATS

GNATS
Developer(s)Chad Walstrom
Initial release1992[1]
Stable release4.1 / March 6, 2005; 8 years ago (2005-03-06)
Written inC
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeBug tracking system
LicenseGPL
Websitewww.gnu.org/software/gnats/

GNATS is the GNU project's issue-tracking software.

GNATS is a set of tools for tracking bugs reported by users to a central site. It allows problem report management and communication with users via various means. GNATS stores all the information about problem reports in its databases and provides tools for querying, editing, and maintenance of the databases.

GNATS is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

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Usage

GNATS is used by GNU packages, FreeBSD[2] and NetBSD.[3][4] The Apache Software Foundation used the software from 1996-2002,[5] and the Mutt project until 2006.[6] It is also used, or was used in the past, by Nordic Optical Telescope, CERN, Green Bank Telescope, NRAO AIPS++, European Software Institute, and the BaBar Project at SLAC.[7]

It has been described as having been "the cornerstone" of free software bug-tracking systems.[8][9]

History

GNATS had its first stable release in 1992. Initially, it's only interface was via email[10] but multiple web and graphical interfaces were later added. During the 1990s, part of the development was performed by Cygnus Solutions,[11] with other features contributed by users.[12][13]

Although GNATS is still in use, no official releases have been made and there have been no notable features added to the main repository since the 4.1 release in 2005.[14] Some changes have been made in the developers' source code repository, and a 4.2 release was discussed in 2012[15] but no official release was made.

Features

Built as a client-server architecture, GNATS works with many interfaces (described below) including email, command line, and web interfaces. All GNATS databases and configuration can be stored in plain text files, which helps in the modularity of GNATS. Categorisation and recategorisation of bug reports is particularly simple.[16]

Interfaces

Four interfaces exist for GNATS:[17]

Gnatsweb
A html interface, with GNATS running as a background process (a "daemon")
TkGnats
A cross-platform application, written in the Tcl/Tk language
Emacs GNATS mode
An extension (a "major mode") for GNU Emacs and XEmacs allowing direct access to GNAT issue-trackers
send-pr
A html and mail interface, used by the FreeBSD and NetBSD projects

See also

Portal iconFree software portal
  • Perbandingan -- issue tracking systems

References

  1. ^ "gnats (7) man page". "Copyright (c) 1992" 
  2. ^ "GNATS". "The FreeBSD Project utilizes GNATS for tracking bugs and change requests (...) make use of send-pr (...)" 
  3. ^ "current: NetBSD switching to the GNATS bug tracking system". "NetBSD has switched from the BSD bugfiler to GNU GNATS to maintain our bug database. This change will allow NetBSD developers to track bugs throughout their life cycle" 
  4. ^ "GNATS Bug Database Summary". "GNATS Bug Database Summary, Automatically generated on 5 Apr 2013 18:00:01 GMT" 
  5. ^ "archive gnats bug reports". "archive gnats bug reports (...) Note : this is archived material. The gnats system is no longer in use." 
  6. ^ "Bug #69157 “Support “gnats” bug tracker in Malone”". "mutt bugs, which uses the "gnats" problem tracker. An example URL is:http://bugs.mutt.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb .pl(...)" 
  7. ^ "HET PRMS Design". "Users of Gnats:
    Nordic Optical Telescope
    CERN
    Green Bank TelescopeBank
    NRAO AIPS++Bank
    European Software InstituteBank
    BaBar Project at SLACBank
    FreeBSD Project"     
  8. ^ "Perl-based Bug Tracking". "The GNATS/PRMS Gnu Bug Tracking System has been the cornerstone of Free Software bug tracking systems. The core is command-line, e-mail based, allowing additional tools and GUI wrappers to be created for it. These include wwwgnats, a web interface, and TkGnats, a Tk interface." 
  9. ^ "Managing Open Source Projects - Jan Sandred". "The GNU GNATS has been the cornerstone of open-source bug-tracking systems. (...) The core is command-line, email-based, allowing additional tools and GUI wrappers to be created for it. These include wwwgnats, a Web interface, and TkGnats, a Tk interface." 
  10. ^ "HET PRMS Design". "A web interface and various modifications known as WWW Gnats has been developed by Danks and others. Various authors have modified the system for their own use" 
  11. ^ "Stow - Cygnus software". "Cygnus is a commercial supplier and supporter of GNU software. (...) Among the packages released by Cygnus are `gdb' (...)" 
  12. ^ "Email from Brian Lenihan to "Dank" in October 1996". "This is a version of wwwgnats.pl which I modified for our use here at Progressive Networks." 
  13. ^ "wwwgnats, a WWW Front End for Gnats, the GNU Bug Tracking System". "Authors: Dan Kegel [email protected] & Huy Le [email protected]" 
  14. ^ "GNATS homepage". "GNATS News: March 6, 2005: GNATS 4.1.0 has been released!" 
  15. ^ "GNU GNATS Hackathon - 2012-01-19 14:00-17:00 UTC". "On Saturday, the 19th of January, Joel, Andrew, and I will be collectively hacking on GNU GNATS with the following goals in mind: (...) * Cut the 4.2.0 version - which has been hanging out on CVS for years now." 
  16. ^ "GNATS issue tracking system configuration howto". "The advantage of GNATS over several other issue tracking system are : (1) GNATS offers client/server interface (...) (2) GNATS allows 'relocation' of issues or bugs (...) (3) GNATS uses a file-based back-end database (...)" 
  17. ^ "GNATS Frequently Asked Questions: Clients". "Several client applications can be found in the GNATS distribution. The most important are Gnatsweb (a WWW interface to GNATS), TkGnats (a Tcl/Tk based interface), a GNATS mode for Emacs and XEmacs, and send-pr (the traditional command line interface that sends a PR by e-mail)." 

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