On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 18:59, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hello > > Can anybody recommend me an open source (for money or not) workflow and > problem tracking system for Linux? > > I guess most ISPs have roughly the same tasks so this might be of > general interest here. There is Request Tracker (free open source, but backed by a company that sells support, may be cheaper than trying to customize it yourself). It is a general ticketing system, not specialized for ISP or any other special need, but I found it can be customized relatively easily, and the user community is very helpful. (It's Perl, btw). > > The system should be capable of handling > - workflows (prepare line, configure router, visit customer) > maybe even with different default users for each task This part would require a bit of coding, but I think it can be done by defining triggers on actions (like 'reassign to the configure queue when ticket state is set to 'line prepared'), so it would all be using official APIs, not changing some obscure internals. > - priorities (low,medium,high) Supported. > - employees/users vs customers/others > - single users as well as groups of users (marketing/tech/..) > - classes (tech,marketing,support) you can define user classes, with a very flexible permission system. > - ticket numbers Yep. > - optional: reminder mails > - resubmission after X days I think this is available as contributed add-on (Not sure what the difference would be between the above two points.) > - quick handling via E-Mail possible This is the part where request tracker is currently lacking. I haven't used rt for a few months, and when I quit they were working on it. Simple operations like creating a ticket on incoming mail, and then assigning it to the first person who answers it (for example) are already there. > - web interface for overview and more complicated changes web interface is default. Be sure not to install request-tracker from the Debian Package. There is a newer version available, and (last I looked) the .deb was being reworked. All required Perl modules are easily available as packages, though. A big plus: the request-tracker team takes upgrading *very* seriously and provides good and simple upgrade instructions even when you skip a few releases. I've never used Double Choco Latte, also opensource, but I think they claim to be able roughly the same things. dcl is imho interesting (long term perspective!) because it is being integrated into the GNU Enterprise suite of programs. cheers -- vbi -- this email is protected by a digital signature: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg NOTE: keyserver bugs! get my key here: https://fortytwo.ch/gpg/92082481
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