Mantis Bug Tracker

For those not familiar with MantisTouch:

“MantisTouch was developed to provide mobility to MantisBT. As a web app, MantisTouch provides a mobile optimized user interface for iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone. MantisTouch uses web services to access the bugtracking data allowing it to be installed on the same or a different server than MantisBT.”

This released is focused on addressing some of the common issues found during deployment in some of the customer environments. These include the following:

1. ‘Invalid controller specified (error)’ is now fixed. Instead, MantisTouch will prompt the real issue that caused the need to look for the error controller

2. Improved README with some extra installation steps that were missing from the previous versions.

The most common deployment issues were:

1. Errors caused by MantisBT API on the MantisBT side – These are typically caused by PHP errors / warnings that show up in the API due to errors in config_inc.php, custom_strings_inc.php, etc. You can resolve these issues one by one as MantisTouch errors on them, or you can use the following settings in config_inc.php, to make MantisBT complain on such errors to fix existing ones and avoid having new ones get introduced due to future changes:

$g_display_errors = array(
E_WARNING => 'halt',
E_NOTICE => 'halt',
E_USER_ERROR => 'halt',
E_USER_WARNING => 'halt',
E_USER_NOTICE => 'halt'
);

$g_stop_on_errors = ON;
$g_show_detailed_errors = ON;


2. Errors when url re-writing is not enabled, causing Zend framework to fail routing of checkLogin – See Zend Framework guide for URL re-writing setup for IIS and Apache.

MantisTouch v1.x license owners can download this version for free via the same link issued on purchase.

Please report issues under the ‘MantisTouch’ project in the bugtracker, or provide feedback via the feedback buttons in MantisTouch itself.

I’ve been busy lately with the MantisTouch v1.1.1 release as well as working on MantisTouch new website.  I’m glad the release is out and the new website is now online at mantistouch.org.  Re-designing the MantisBT website is next on my todo list.

I encourage users to checkout MantisTouch and it’s new website.  The new website have all the social buttons available to like it, tweet about it, +1, etc.

It is recommended to use MantisTouch with MantisBT v1.2.9 that the MantisBT team has released recently.

First off, I would like to start by thanking MantisTouch users for their positive feedback.  The v1.1.1 release has several improvements that addressed issues and feature requests that were reported so far.  The detailed change log can be found here, with the following highlights:

1. Fix timezone translation issues, this includes a fix in both MantisTouch and MantisBT.  Hence, the proper behavior will happen when using v1.1.1 with v1.2.9.
2. Improvements to README file to make requirements explicit and provide more detailed steps.
3. Provide a friendly error message when the target MantisBT instance doesn’t run MantisBT v1.2.5 or above.  However, it is highly recommended to use MantisBT v1.2.9.
4. Use the new MantisBT logo.

MantisBT 1.2.9

MantisBT 1.2.9 release delivers 92 fixes and improvements including security fixes, new MantisBT logo, MantisTouch integration, MS SQL fixes, SOAP API improvements, and others.  We recommend that all instances be upgraded to this release.

A full changelog for 1.2.9 can be found at:
http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/changelog_page.php?version_id=140

The release can be downloaded at:
http://www.mantisbt.org/download.php

Checkout Hosted MantisBT to be up and running in minutes.  For optimized access to MantisBT from iPhone, Android and Windows Phone checkout MantisTouch.

Several years ago, we’ve provided a MantisBT phone optimized interface using MantisWAP, since then the smart phone market has changed significantly.  The smart phones are much more capable, more users have them and expectation is that all services have phone optimized apps.  This has triggered the development of a more modern and frictionless solution via MantisTouch which you can access here.

MantisTouch is an HTML 5 client that is optimized for the phone screen size and the touch interaction model.  Unlike MantisWAP, MantisTouch usage doesn’t require updating the MantisBT installation or even involvement of the MantisBT administrator to enable access for MantisTouch.  MantisTouch acts as a proxy that provides access to MantisBT 1.2.x instance via utilizing SOAP API.

The choice to go with the HTML 5 approach provides a universal experience across multiple phone platforms including iPhone, Android and Windows Phone.

Users are encouraged to provide feedback using the MantisBT official bug tracker under the MantisTouch project.  You can also provide feedback using the “Send Feedback” MantisTouch feature.  It would help if you always provide the MantisTouch version, MantisBT version, Phone type, along with the feedback.  When applicable, also attach screenshots.  The version numbers are available on the MantisTouch about page for your convenience.

Looking forward for your feedback and hoping that MantisTouch will be a game changer when it comes to access of MantisBT on the go.