Simple Open Bug and Error Reporter

SOBER is a smimple web-based bug reporter. It is written in ANSI C and should work on any posix-compliant platform & web server with cgi support.

You can find a demo instance at cogarr.net/demos/sober

Installation

To install:

clone this repo
edit config.h
edit the first 3 lines of build.bat or build.sh
run the build.bat or build.sh script.
point your web server to the cgi-bin directory.

SOBER should set up it's files as needed.

Usage

People that need to use the bug tracker should have access (ex over ssh) to the deploy/bugs directory. Each bug has a id# as a filename. You can search for bugs by using grep. Ex: grep "0:" * will find all open bugs

To give feedback to the users of the site, change the 5th line in the bug report. It has the format <status>:<text> status can be:

0 : unassigned, text MUST NOT exist
1 : assigned, text will be displayed
2 : closed, text MUST NOT exist

Misc

If your filesystem supports it, "lock" the file while it is being edited by a developer (ex, with an autorun script within the editor), so that data submitted by users is not overwritten.