On 19 March 2010 08:02, Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org> wrote:

> I've noticed that github.com and bitbucket.org offer bugtracking, but
> gitorious.org doesn't.  What do you think about attempting to work on
> a bugtracker interface for a free code hosting site using BE as the
> backend?  An awful lot of people (me included, occasionally!) are
> using proprietary sites like github and entrusting their bugtracking
> data to it; having a public hosting service that doesn't create a
> dependency on that service for your bugtracking data would be pretty
> compelling, I think.
>

I've been playing with BE a bit and lurking on this list. I'm a Bitbucket
user, and I like that each project can have source, wiki and bugtracking
associated with it. Now source and wiki are two different plain mercurial
repos. Bugtracking though, has no way to export or import. This is a shame,
since important data is now locked into the site, which ultimately prevents
competition.

I'd be keen for an open source web interface which serves the holy trinity
(source, wiki, bugs) and allows both private and public projects, as the
proprietary sites do. BE seems a natural fit for the bugs component of a
site like this.

Lars