I’ve been looking for a good solution to catching up on bug reports on my morning commute. The regular Bugzilla user interface doesn’t scale down well to mobile, and using the regular web interface is too flaky when connectivity goes in and out.
Enter BugTender: a preliminary HTML web app with a mobile-friendly interface to browse (and later, comment on & triage) your bugs.
Using HTML and jQuery Mobile lets the app run on multiple platforms and browsers — it won’t be tied to just WebKit, and works in a regular desktop browser as well. Wrapping that in PhoneGap for a ‘native app’ will allow further integration, such as access to the camera and photo gallery on iOS and older versions of Android — think uploading screenshots straight from your phone about problems in the browser!
Anyway, that’s how I spent chunks of my Thanksgiving weekend… more to come. :)
nice one! looks like there is a couple of iPhone apps but nothing for Android.
will you try and get it integrated in bugzilla directly?
That is sweet! You should share it with the bugzilla guys so they add it upstream :)
I guess I will finally buy a smartphone.