1.6. History. (HTML) In: MantisBT 2.x Admin Guide. MantisBT Development Team, 29. September 2024, abgerufen am 6. Januar 2025 (englisch): „Kenzaburo Ito and a friend originally created a bug tracker as an internal tool for their pet project. … In 2002, Ken was joined by Jeroen Latour, Victor Boctor and Julian Fitzell to be the administrators and the core development team of MantisBT.“
mantisbt.org. (abgerufen am 6. Januar 2025): „1.1. What is MantisBT? MantisBT is a web based bug tracking system that was first made available to the public in November 2000.“
mantisbt.org. (abgerufen am 6. Januar 2025): „Kenzaburo Ito and a friend originally created a bug tracker as an internal tool for their pet project. A search for good, free packages came up with nothing suitable so they wrote their own. After a rewrite and cleanup it was made available to the public via the GNU General Public License (GPL).“