After I gave up the concept of tracking bugs and doing feature planning in the same app (sounds great but has never worked in practice), this tracker became my default for any projects where I have a say in the matter.
We moved from JIRA because administering a JIRA installation is practically a full-time job. Have also used Fogbugz, Redmine, Mantis, Bugzilla over the years, so that list is my main basis for comparison. I hate YouTRACK less than those.
Edit: I see they are now offering a free hosted version for the first half of 2011.
In 2003 I was just a few years out of college, working for ClickSitez Japan, K.K., a startup trying to convince VCs that people were going to do their photos on the interweb tubes. We had angel funding and a prototype/demo with one and only one error-free path through it (the "shining path", one of our advisors called it, and the name stuck). We on the engineering side divided our time between coding the prototype and helping the bizdev guys pitch it to anybody who'd listen: VCs, other dot-coms, even NTT.
My business card read VP/UX, which was supposed to mean "Vice President, User Experience". Like a lot of dot-com startups at the time, we had like 7 vice presidents of this or that, with only 2 staffers below VP level.
What I actually did know then, and simply wish I had factored into my decision-making processes more, was that the dot-com bubble was a bubble and that trying to play the stock game in a bubble isn't fundamentally different from playing blackjack. Bootstrapping is preferable to chasing investors, in retrospect.
Of course, everybody knew it was a bubble; the technology stock analyst I was dating at the time told me, "Yeah. It's a bubble, but it's still paying out. So there will still be money to be made here, until the day comes that it was a bubble."
It was March 2000 when that day came, as near as I can recall. We never got that next funding round, and as it started to become clear that the party was over, the three of us who could code went our separate ways, and the company was acquired by some short-lived web consulting company, which was in turn acquired by somebody else, and ultimately was bought by the posterboy of dot-com Internet flameouts, marchFIRST.
The most valuable lesson that has stuck with me is that none of these people--investors, analysts, "experts", bosses, underlings, dot-celebrities of the day--knew what the hell they were talking about.
I'm not saying that I did, mind you--nobody did. That's why these things are assigned descriptors like "revolutionary, disruptive technological paradigm shift". Because nobody knows what the hell all the effects are going to be.
Not many of the things such hyperbolic labels are applied to actually turn out to do all that much disrupting. But the dot-com revolution was different--it was a bona-fide Gutenberg-level event, and for all the billions of dollars that were bandied about and the huge transfers of wealth and the frenzied investment in it, that was really just a pretty minor part of the whole picture. The impact of the Internet becoming a mainstream part of modern human society goes much deeper than that.
And that's what made it fun to be living and breathing every day. Despite all the missed opportunities and inevitable what-ifs looking back, I'm glad I was there.
Terriffic. This client looks like it is going to be great. Right now it seems just a bit sluggish or rough in a few spots--I wonder if the recent announcement of GitBox made them rush their beta out the door? It seems plenty ready for beta, though--very attractive but highly functional UI, and after putting it through my workflow this morning, I can already say that for me, GitX is a thing of the past.
Let the battle of the real Mac git clients begin! GitBox, Tower... does anybody else want to announce one?
While I share tlrobinson's concern about the mac getting locked down (and therefore dumbed down) like iOS, I think at least it is now clear that we have several years in front of us, at least, where Apple won't try that.
A Mac app I worked on a couple years back got "Staff Pick" on Apple's old, lame, "Get Mac OS X Software" page that just linked to our site. Lame as that page was, we saw a considerable sales bump. But it was nothing like the gargantuan effect we've seen from getting featured on the iOS app store.
The exposure from getting featured is major, but even if it doesn't happen, the fact that Apple handles billing and provides the one-step, one-click process is a huge win for the developer.
I expect that with an Apple-backed Mac app store, if you have Mac apps that are at all successful in the market now, you're going to see a massive increase in unit sales.
I think that would be the case even if the Mac installed base was magically frozen at this point in time. (And that definitely _isn't_ the case.)
http://www.jetbrains.com/youtrack
After I gave up the concept of tracking bugs and doing feature planning in the same app (sounds great but has never worked in practice), this tracker became my default for any projects where I have a say in the matter.
We moved from JIRA because administering a JIRA installation is practically a full-time job. Have also used Fogbugz, Redmine, Mantis, Bugzilla over the years, so that list is my main basis for comparison. I hate YouTRACK less than those.
Edit: I see they are now offering a free hosted version for the first half of 2011.