I’m really happy to see that the Rails team and 37 Signals are making this move because it will force Lighthouse to become an even better application as it meets demands of many projects that are sure to follow Rails.

Too many teams put up with products that have terrible usability like Bugzilla because many programmers tend not to think about usability as an important factor. We are used to command line interfaces and white text on black backgrounds. But believe it or not, using something like Lighthouse over say, Bugzilla, boosts your productivity because it is well designed and lets you get to the information you need more quickly and with less frustration. That said, Trac is still many levels above Bugzilla in usability and design so if you’re using an in-house product, I don’t know of many better ones.