It's pretty well established at this point that distributed version control systems (such as Bazaar, Git or Mercurial) offer some non-trivial advantages over centralized version control systems (such as CVS or Subversion). But what about issue tracking? I've been a big fan of Bugzilla for years (it seems like decades...), but working with it still requires a centralized server and a constant internet connection. This project is an attempt to overcome these limitations.

High-level goals:

• Embed the issue database inside the version controlled directory, so that we tie issue versioning directly to file versioning and adopt all the normally available DVCS features for issues.
• Offer a rich browser-based GUI for the UI by using an embedded local HTTP server.
• Adopt Launchpad style status tracking. (per component / per version)
• Adopt Google Issues style tagging and search features.
• When in doubt, follow Bugzilla's model. (oldie but goodie!)
• Support issue merging / conflict resolution.
• Support all three major DVCS implementations.

WARNING: This of course is still very-much a work-in-progress and NOT ready for anything approaching production.

-- Derek