Flyspray is an open-source, web-based application for bug and request tracking written in PHP

PHP

PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...

, released under the GNU Lesser General Public License

GNU Lesser General Public License

The GNU Lesser General Public License or LGPL is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation . It was designed as a compromise between the strong-copyleft GNU General Public License or GPL and permissive licenses such as the BSD licenses and the MIT License...

 Version 2.1 (LGPL). The application is aimed at software developers.

History

Flyspray was originally conceived for the Psi Jabber instant messaging client

Psi (instant messaging client)

Psi is a GPL instant messaging client for the XMPP protocol which uses the Qt toolkit. It runs on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and eComStation.Ready-to-install deb and RPM packages are available for many Linux distributions...

, when the project sponsors couldn't find a suitable bug tracking application. The project was forked and first released to the public in 2003, and Flyspray was born.

See also

• List of project management software
• Comparison of issue tracking systems
  Comparison of issue tracking systems
  This article is a comparison of issue tracking systems which are notable, including bug tracking systems, help desk and service desk issue tracking systems, and asset management systems...