[basil]

I've seen this quite a bit recently. It's a hack but it's a quick way to get a public-facing issue tracker out there.

Are there any better solutions for getting a tracker set up easily where non-contributors can raise bugs and discuss feature requests?

[jcastro]

http://launchpad.net has a bug tracker and a blueprints function.

[emperorcezar]

Can only say one thing about Launchpad, "ew". It has a horrible UI.

[rbanffy]

One pitfall of open source is that it's sometimes made by people smarter than its users for people smarter than its users.

[4ad]

Speaking as someone who has to use it everyday, the horrible UI is the least of its problems.

[Shorel]

Care to elaborate a bit on that?

[papsosouid]

Yeah, the UI is pretty terrible. The only worse UI I can think of is github's.