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- b4 maintainer and Director of LF IT Konstantin Ryabitsev demo-ed git-bug support in b4 and cgit (kernel.org fork) just this week at the Kernel Recipes conference:
https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/maintainer/bugs.html
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/b4/b4.git/bugs/
https://kernel-recipes.org/en/2026/2026/09/22/live-blog-day-... (shameless plug)
by Aissen - Someone is taking lessons from fossil-scm.
Looks great by the way.
by lolakutty - My favorite VCS friendly ticket tracker is https://github.com/wedow/ticket
It's human-readable, simple, and easy to work with. Basically there's no magic.
by dizzard - A few months ago there was another of these posted, called Epiq: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155570
My comment on there is about a surge in popularity of these over a decade ago, with a link to a previous comment about problems I remember them having that prevented them from being usable for most people ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956979 ), because of their intended design rather than an implementation issue. For example bullet 3 was a problem in one, that another tried to solve with bullet 2.
I don't have time right now to look at this one to guess if these apply, but might be interesting/useful for someone else.
by Izkata - I tried git-bug a few months ago, and https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug/issues/1023 is a showstopper.
There is a workaround, but it isn't pretty. You can push/pull bugs and identities with normal, ssh-agent-less git commands: https://gist.github.com/parasyte/80ef925d4b01216f6bcb051356f...
by jason_oster - Just for those people for whom this might be a new concept: There is actually a fair number of these distributed bug trackers: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22833037>by teddyh
- You can also do code reviews in pure git:
https://github.com/google/git-appraise
I used git bug before but found I missed being able to edit tickets with a Markdown editor. So I built this: https://github.com/LoumTechnologies/ticketry
by imagent - Hi, author here, nice to see some interest :-)
FYI, this is my near-term roadmap:
Also, while there is some attention ... I'm considering working on this full time. If you have some advice or opportunities on how I can support myself doing this, let me know!- have the webui accept external auth (like github oauth) so that it can be a public portal and accept external interactions - have the webui expose a git remote endpoint - slightly rework identities (and likely root them in did:plc for pubkey distribution, the identity system from bluesky, without being an ATProto thing), which would allow to share identities between repos way more naturally - extend to support pull-requests, possibly CI. That would make it a somewhat complete local-first forge that you can also self-host triviallyby michaelmure