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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](https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/).

I started by improving the
[dist-bugs](http://dist-bugs.branchable.com/software/) wiki, and have narrowed
down the ones that interest me to four:

* [TicGit-ng](https://github.com/jeffWelling/ticgit)
* [Bugs Everywhere](http://bugseverywhere.org/)
* [Nitpick](http://travisbrown.ca/projects/nitpick/docs/nitpick.html)
* [Ditz](http://ditz.rubyforge.org/)

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...