Using GitHub with another Bug-tracker?

Question

I am involved in this project, Pinta, and we are currently using GitHub for our development. We all love Git and GitHub and want to keep using it. However, now the project is getting stable and involved, and it's time we started using a more capable bug tracking system than GitHub's simple issue tracker. We also want to start doing GetText based translations.

We are looking at Launchpad which has both a nice bug tracker and translation manager, but we want to keep using GitHub for development. I'm worried that these will not integrate well, and it will make development harder.

Has anyone used GitHub with another bug tracking system and had any success? Any recommendations?

Answer 1

Projects use external (to github) bug tracking systems all the time. Mostly, you just need to document the way to get to the bug tracker well and inform any current community of the change.

Answer 2

We use Lighthouse with GitHub and the integration in both directions is very handy.

Answer 3

Use Bugzilla. It may not have direct integration, but it's the best bug-tracking software out there IMHO. And you honestly don't need direct integration for something like bug-tracking.