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<appendix id="variants" xreflabel="Bugzilla Variants and Competitors">
  <title>Bugzilla Variants and Competitors</title>

  <para>I created this section to answer questions about Bugzilla competitors
  and variants, then found a wonderful site which covers an awful lot of what
  I wanted to discuss. Rather than quote it in its entirety, I'll simply
  refer you here: 
  <ulink url="http://linas.org/linux/pm.html">
  http://linas.org/linux/pm.html</ulink>
  </para>

  <section id="rhbugzilla" xreflabel="Red Hat Bugzilla">
    <title>Red Hat Bugzilla</title>

    <para>Red Hat Bugzilla is probably the most popular Bugzilla, after
    Bugzilla itself, on the planet. One of the major benefits of Red Hat
    Bugzilla is the ability
    to work with Oracle, MySQL, and PostGreSQL databases serving as the
    back-end, instead of just MySQL. Dave Lawrence of Red Hat is 
    active in the Bugzilla community, and we hope to see a reunification
    of the fork before too long.</para>

    <para>URL: 
    <ulink url="http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/">
    http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/</ulink>
    </para>
  </section>

  <section id="variant-fenris" xreflabel="Loki Bugzilla, a.k.a. Fenris">
    <title>Loki Bugzilla (Fenris)</title>

    <para>Fenris was a fork from Bugzilla made by Loki Games; when
    Loki went into receivership, it died. While Loki's other code lives on,
    its custodians recommend Bugzilla for future bug-tracker deployments.
    </para>
  </section>

  <section id="variant-issuezilla" xreflabel="Issuezilla">
    <title>Issuezilla</title>

    <para>Issuezilla was another fork from Bugzilla, made by collab.net and
    hosted at tigris.org. It is also dead; the primary focus of bug-tracking 
    at tigris.org is their Java-based bug-tracker, 
    <xref linkend="variant-scarab"/>.</para>
  </section>

  <section id="variant-scarab" xreflabel="Scarab">
    <title>Scarab</title>

    <para>Scarab is a new open source bug-tracking system built using Java
    Serlet technology. It is currently at version 1.0 beta 7.</para>

    <para>URL: 
    <ulink url="http://scarab.tigris.org/">http://scarab.tigris.org</ulink>
    </para>
  </section>

  <section id="variant-perforce" xreflabel="Using Perforce to track bugs">
    <title>Perforce SCM</title>

    <para>Although Perforce isn't really a bug tracker, it can be used as
    such through the <quote>jobs</quote>
    functionality.</para>

    <para>URL: 
    <ulink url="http://www.perforce.com/perforce/technotes/note052.html">
    http://www.perforce.com/perforce/technotes/note052.html
    </ulink>
    </para>
  </section>

  <section id="variant-sourceforge" xreflabel="SourceForge">
    <title>SourceForge</title>

    <para>SourceForge is a way of coordinating geographically
    distributed free software and open source projects over the Internet.
    It has a built-in bug tracker, but it's not highly thought of.</para>

    <para>URL: 
    <ulink url="http://www.sourceforge.net">
    http://www.sourceforge.net</ulink>
    </para>
  </section>
</appendix>

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