Questions

There are those on my team that think a CR is only needed for requirement changes/customer requests and not for defects.

Can someone please help me to explain why this is not true.

I feel that outside of normal help desk support, all changes, to include correction of functional defects should pass through a CR. This way we properly document that a change was necessary to make the system function properly. This also allows us to track items that were not properly addressed during initial development.

My company is using bugzilla since ages. & we use same for project management too.Have developed in-house tool for release generation using bugzilla to.
Moving from bugzilla to redmine for issue tracking i need some solid reasons. can some1 direct me to those pros-cons?

Btw: Is redmine one the best tool available?

My requirements-

1) Product managers can easily track there minor,major,enhancement projects through that

2) tech leads/dev can get there projects commits logged easily

3)resource/project tracking

4)managers to get reports about user/employee load, job done, graphs and charts about work progress, and other sorts of reports

5)Estimated time planning

6) authorization/approval of commits

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