BTS is the acronym for Bug Tracking System and is a software created by the Debian Project for its own needs.
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ - Debian bug tracking system
Features
- users do not need to authenticate in order to report issues
- maneuverable via email
- has a web interface for viewing and browsing bugs
has multiple filters to show different classes of bugs (ex.: having patches, with solution pending, already fixed, fixed in uptream, regarding localisation issues, etc.) and allows users to create special tags associated with a mail address, tags which are not visible by default; this last feature is called usertags
- interacts automatically with the system that populates the archive
Documentation
You can learn how to use the BTS.
See also
- BTS Interface :
Mail : server-refcard and server-control
SOAP : DebbugsSoapInterface
LDAP : http://oldpeople.debian.org/~aba/bts2ldap/ - How to use the bts-to-ldap Gateway.
Bugs affecting the BTS (!) :
The Source :In bzr, see Teams/Debbugs
See http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Access
The raw data, from bugs-mirror.debian.org is mirrored on a few places (Google for it)
debbugs - Tips, Tricks and Hacks, Anthony Towns 15th June, 2005 (video ; slide / slide)
Secret debian internals, Enrico Zini, 2007 at Fosdem : (video ; slide).