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copied!<p>FogBugz has long supported case "relation", which creates an ad hoc link between cases simply through adding "case 1234" to any note. Downside: these are not removable, and this persists into FogBugz 7. (We tried to figure out how to do it right, but just ran out of time, so we left current behavior.)</p> <p>FogBugz 7, newly released, has added parent-child hierarchy, to allow you to split up a master case into its constituent parts, or to aggregate similar requests under one umbrella case.</p> <p>FogBugz 7 also offers milestone dependencies, where one milestone cannot be started before another is complete. This only applies to the scheduling features of the software. We don't actually prevent anyone from working on cases in the dependent milestone.</p> <p>We feel these features represent the real world of dependencies as they exist among different parts of a project.</p> <p>We intentionally did not implement any sort of Bugzilla-style blocking, for several reasons. First, it can be horrendously inefficient, allowing people to ignore work that they could easily do if it was in front of them. Second, it can cause a morass of interdependencies. Third, it also allows the use of the software as a social bludgeon, ("I can't start stubbing out functions until Jeff has finished his mock-ups.") which is something we try to avoid. We make social software... in that we prefer to let social problems be solved socially and software problems be solved with software. The intentional omission of blocking or hard dependency between cases is part of this philosophy.</p> <p>That said, FogBugz 7 is highly extensible, with plug-ins, tags, custom fields, and lots of other goodies. If blocking is what you want, I'm sure someone will be able to cobble something together.</p>

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