Bugzilla
General-purpose bugtracker and testing tool originally developed and used by the Mozilla project.
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Still maintained? Yes: 8 commits in the last 90 days.
Comparisons in Ticketing: Zendesk alternatives, Intercom alternatives, Sentry alternatives.
At a glance
Bugzilla quick facts
- Health score
- 31/100 STALE
- Stars
- 865
- Last commit
- 5 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- No tagged release
- Licence
- MPL-2.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Bugzilla is free and open source web-based bug-tracking software that is developed by an active group of volunteers in the Mozilla community, and used by thousands of projects and companies around the world. It can be installed on Linux and other flavors of Unix, Windows or Mac OS X."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Bugzilla scores 31/100, #14 of 22 in Ticketing: 8 commits in the last 90 days earn 9.3 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, 865 stars add 11.8 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 25.7 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 9.3 / 35
8 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 11.8 / 20
865 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 8
- Last 90 days
- 25
- Last 12 months
- 5 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #14 of 22 tools in Ticketing by health , between GlitchTip (#13) and EKSO (#15) .
Details
| Licence | MPL-2.0 |
| Platforms | Perl |
| Latest release | No tagged release |
| Stars | 865 |
| Open issues | 0 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | bugzilla/bugzilla ↗ |
Bugzilla vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Bugzilla (Ticketing), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forgejo | 95 | 5.7k | MIT | 2 days ago |
| FreeScout | 95 | 4.6k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| Erxes | 94 | 4.1k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| Frappe Helpdesk | 94 | 3.5k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| OTOBO | 65 | 340 | GPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Bugzilla (this tool) | 31 | 865 | MPL-2.0 | 5 days ago |
Bugzilla: common questions
Is Bugzilla still maintained?
Bugzilla had 8 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 5 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.