Reasons not to build your own bug tracking system [closed]

First, look at these Ohloh metrics:

    Trac:  44 KLoC, 10 Person Years,   $577,003
Bugzilla:  54 KLoC, 13 Person Years,   $714,437
 Redmine: 171 KLoC, 44 Person Years, $2,400,723
  Mantis: 182 KLoC, 47 Person Years, $2,562,978

What do we learn from these numbers? We learn that building Yet Another Bug Tracker is a great way to waste resources!

So here are my reasons to build your own internal bug tracking system:

1. You need to neutralize all the bozocoders for a decade or two.
2. You need to flush some money to avoid budget reduction next year.

Otherwise don’t.