Should I use GitHub+Fogbugz or Assembla?

Question

I'm trying to work out the lowest friction hosting solution for a bunch of open source, one man (i.e., me) projects. Recently I started using Git and naturally fell into using GitHub as well, which I've found very nice. I also discovered that Fogbugz is free for small teams and started using that for my bug tracking.

Recently I've read about Assembla's support for Git with ticketing through Trac. While this is obviously a very subjective question, which option would you choose? I guess the difference comes down to distributed or collated bug reports. And is Trac through Assembla as nice as Fogbugz for bug tracking? (I haven't used either in much detail.)

Answer 1

@skolima:

Just sign up for a trial account and select the appropriate choice when it asks for which type of account you'd like. (You might need to do that in "Settings" rather that when first creating the account.) Hope this helps!

Answer 2

The last time I used Trac (about a year ago), it really couldn't compete with FogBugz. FogBugz makes tracking the time you spend on different tasks (or cases, whatever) easy, and then uses that info to produce great reports. I can't rave enough about evidence-based scheduling. Trac was more of an "It's nice because it's free" experience for me.

Answer 3

I would like to suggest using github with Assembla integrated tickets. Github is best for git, Assembla has github external tool than can help you to update Assembla tickets and see git commits on Stream tab of your space. Also you will get alerts for github commits.

Add new space and go to the Admin/Tools and add Ticket and Github tools.

Of course Assembla has Trac/Git tool if you prefer Trac.

Answer 4

Now, I should use neither :)
GitHub has its own issue tracker, as of Apr 2009.
Much better to keep things all together!