I had a dive in to the rather absent world of distributed issue/bug tracking systems on Saturday, and they are still on my mind...

This was triggered by discussions around the impending shutdown of Gitorious.

I started by improving the dist-bugs wiki, and have narrowed down the ones that interest me to four:

I am going to give each a go, one by one, and will hopefully post my thoughts online over the next few weeks.

My current dream of a distributed bug/issue tracking system, has plain text, editable, YAML files, with a web server, and command line utility for editing. Hopefully I will find that one of the tools above is like this, or just good enough/better...