I just posted to RIAForge an update to the BugLogHQ bug agregator, percolator and assimilator. This is a small update that includes some bug fixes and contributions.

The update can be found at http://bugloghq.riaforge.org/.

Also on a related note, over the weekend at work (where we use BugLogHQ) we had a ton of bug reports in BugLog that could not be saved to the DB and remained on the queue. All of them had some weird errors while trying to save a text column to the DB.

All the errors where something along the lines of:

After googling a bit, it turned out that it was a character encoding issue (the bug reports were coming from a site that could display Japanese content). After looking at the DB I saw that all the BugLogHQ tables where using the "Latin1" charset. After changing the charset to utf8 and the collating to utf8_unicode_ci, the problem went away and the entries were successfully saved to the DB.

So as a precaution, in this update the SQL script to create the required tables now set the charset and collating correctly.

However if you are experiencing this problem just change the charset and collating in your db tables to fix it.

For MySQL you can do this in the command line with something like this:

And repeat for any other table/column that is giving you problems.