More people are realizing that FogBugz is not merely a bug tracking tool, but can also be used as a project management tool.  A number of features have been added that move FogBugz in this direction, and more are on the way.  I suspect we’ll be talking at length about this topic over the coming months.  For now, though, I would like to point out a lesser known feature that can be quite nice, namely release notes.

If the users of FogBugz are conscientiously keeping notes on relevant cases in the development of a new version of software or other project, FogBugz will allow you to create a list of notes in either XML or HTML format that you can use as a summary of all new features.  This removes the burden off having to keep track of this in some other location not connected to the cases in FogBugz, or worse, trying to sift through hundreds of cases to determine which ones are relevant to your new release.

To make a note for a release, the case must be resolved, but not closed; otherwise you won’t see the release notes option.  Adding notes to the right kinds of cases in words you want the world to see is the key to making this useful.

You can read about this in more detail here.