[Desktop_architects] Cross-site bug tracking

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 25 April 2007, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > personally, i find bugzilla and the rest of the centralized, online bug
> > systems an increasingly poor fit for Free software development. i'd love
> > to see a truly distributed bug system, perhaps bringing to bug tracking
> > what git is bringing / has brought to distributed scm.
>
> Your answer is DisTract <http://www.distract.wellquite.org/>, which is
> in early development and is written in Haskell (?!). It was featured in
> LWN this week.

neat. =)

unfortunately, being written in haskell and using monotone means the possible 
contributor pool is extremely small. =/ that's usually a killer for a free 
software project, particularly one meant to be used by large numbers of 
people in large numbers of contexts.

perhaps this will kick off the experimentation with such systems though...

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Aaron J. Seigo
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