Working with a small web team, we have spent years simply using a bugmail facility to handle bugs and stack traces of problems with our app. Now that our team has grown, we will be bringing in a true bug tracker to manage and communicate about bugs.

In the time leading up to this change, I found the easiest way to communicate about a bug that was sitting in each developer's inbox was to use a private Pastie paste. This way it was obvious to the team which bug I was talking about, without needing to communicate a subject line or partial stack trace over chat. I could share a link to the message rather than talking about "that email I forwarded you." The link also worked well in project management software if the bug required us to fire a longer-running to-do.

I spent last weekend throwing together a little Sinatra app to ease this process a bit.

http://pasteforward.com/

Please let me know what you think. It's certainly not perfect yet. Hopefully some folks will find this little piece of software useful.