 |
Mantis vs Redmine
March 10, 2025 | Author: Michael Stromann
4★
MantisBT is a free popular web-based bugtracking system (feature list). It is written in the PHP scripting language and works with MySQL, MS SQL, and PostgreSQL databases and a webserver. MantisBT has been installed on Windows, Linux, Mac OS, OS/2, and others. Almost any web browser should be able to function as a client. It is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
14★
Redmine is a flexible alternative project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database. Redmine is open source and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL).
See also:
Top 10 Issue-tracking systems
Top 10 Issue-tracking systems
Mantis and Redmine are both open-source issue tracking systems, which means they exist to help people pretend they have control over the chaos of software development. They let you juggle multiple projects, assign tasks and send out email notifications, mostly to inform people that something is wrong and they should feel vaguely guilty about it. If you’re particularly ambitious, you can even extend them with plugins, ensuring that your customized tracking system will eventually become just as unwieldy as the software it was meant to organize.
MantisBT has been around since the year 2000, presumably because someone in the United States looked at a spreadsheet and thought, "There must be a better way!" It’s built for small to medium teams that like to track bugs with minimal fuss, offering a straightforward interface and just enough project management features to keep things running without too much existential dread. It includes time tracking, which is useful for reminding people how long they’ve spent not fixing that one really nasty bug and enforces a structured workflow that tries to gently nudge users toward efficiency rather than despair.
Redmine, on the other hand, emerged from Japan in 2006, as if to say, "Yes, but what if we added everything?" It’s not just an issue tracker—it’s a full-fledged project management system that comes with Gantt charts, calendars and built-in version control integration, all designed to give you a sense of control over a project that is almost certainly spiraling into anarchy. Unlike Mantis, it’s more suited for large-scale development teams or anyone who enjoys the thrill of fine-tuning a complex system to track why nothing is getting done.
See also: Top 10 Issue Trackers
MantisBT has been around since the year 2000, presumably because someone in the United States looked at a spreadsheet and thought, "There must be a better way!" It’s built for small to medium teams that like to track bugs with minimal fuss, offering a straightforward interface and just enough project management features to keep things running without too much existential dread. It includes time tracking, which is useful for reminding people how long they’ve spent not fixing that one really nasty bug and enforces a structured workflow that tries to gently nudge users toward efficiency rather than despair.
Redmine, on the other hand, emerged from Japan in 2006, as if to say, "Yes, but what if we added everything?" It’s not just an issue tracker—it’s a full-fledged project management system that comes with Gantt charts, calendars and built-in version control integration, all designed to give you a sense of control over a project that is almost certainly spiraling into anarchy. Unlike Mantis, it’s more suited for large-scale development teams or anyone who enjoys the thrill of fine-tuning a complex system to track why nothing is getting done.
See also: Top 10 Issue Trackers
