Github is popular due to its social features and unilaterally providing
everything a free software project would need (wiki, issue tracker,
etc). The problem with github is that it is a centralized service as a
software substitute (SaaSS) and largely proprietary. 

There are distributed issue trackers like Simple Defects:
http://syncwith.us/sd/

There are also DVCS' with built in distributed issue-tracking, wiki, and
web-interface such as fossil: https://www.fossil-scm.org/

If darcs could work on implementing this, it would be poised to become a
free software and distributed alternative to github. The wiki itself
could easily be powered by darcs, and there should be a way for the
issue tracker to be as well.

So we have http://hub.darcs.net these days for a centralised version of this

I'd be curious to see if in practice how the Fossil community have
found the use of distributed bug tracking to be in practice.  When I
was playing with in-repo BTS (BugsEverywhere) I think I basically ran
into problems of obscurity (got to a point where it introduced a sort
of opacity - shoot, I forgot to use BE).  None of this detracts from
your core request though, so maybe the discussion should happen on
darcs-users instead.


On 28 March 2014 02:58, kxra <bugs@darcs.net> wrote:
>
> New submission from kxra <kxra@riseup.net>:
>
> Github is popular due to its social features and unilaterally providing
> everything a free software project would need (wiki, issue tracker,
> etc). The problem with github is that it is a centralized service as a
> software substitute (SaaSS) and largely proprietary.
>
> There are distributed issue trackers like Simple Defects:
> http://syncwith.us/sd/
>
> There are also DVCS' with built in distributed issue-tracking, wiki, and
> web-interface such as fossil: https://www.fossil-scm.org/
>
> If darcs could work on implementing this, it would be poised to become a
> free software and distributed alternative to github. The wiki itself
> could easily be powered by darcs, and there should be a way for the
> issue tracker to be as well.
>
> ----------
> messages: 17237
> milestone: 3.0.0
> nosy: kxra
> priority: wishlist
> status: unknown
> title: distributed github-like isse tracker, wiki, and social features
>
> __________________________________
> Darcs bug tracker <bugs@darcs.net>
> <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2363>
> __________________________________
> _______________________________________________
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> darcs-devel@darcs.net
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-- 
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I did cross-post my bug report to this thread on the list:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.darcs.user/26883/focus=26888


On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Eric Kow <kowey@darcs.net> wrote:

> So we have http://hub.darcs.net these days for a centralised version of
> this
>
> I'd be curious to see if in practice how the Fossil community have
> found the use of distributed bug tracking to be in practice.  When I
> was playing with in-repo BTS (BugsEverywhere) I think I basically ran
> into problems of obscurity (got to a point where it introduced a sort
> of opacity - shoot, I forgot to use BE).  None of this detracts from
> your core request though, so maybe the discussion should happen on
> darcs-users instead.
>
>
> On 28 March 2014 02:58, kxra <bugs@darcs.net> wrote:
> >
> > New submission from kxra <kxra@riseup.net>:
> >
> > Github is popular due to its social features and unilaterally providing
> > everything a free software project would need (wiki, issue tracker,
> > etc). The problem with github is that it is a centralized service as a
> > software substitute (SaaSS) and largely proprietary.
> >
> > There are distributed issue trackers like Simple Defects:
> > http://syncwith.us/sd/
> >
> > There are also DVCS' with built in distributed issue-tracking, wiki, and
> > web-interface such as fossil: https://www.fossil-scm.org/
> >
> > If darcs could work on implementing this, it would be poised to become a
> > free software and distributed alternative to github. The wiki itself
> > could easily be powered by darcs, and there should be a way for the
> > issue tracker to be as well.
> >
> > ----------
> > messages: 17237
> > milestone: 3.0.0
> > nosy: kxra
> > priority: wishlist
> > status: unknown
> > title: distributed github-like isse tracker, wiki, and social features
> >
> > __________________________________
> > Darcs bug tracker <bugs@darcs.net>
> > <http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2363>
> > __________________________________
> > _______________________________________________
> > darcs-devel mailing list
> > darcs-devel@darcs.net
> > http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-devel
>
>
>
> --
> Eric Kow <http://erickow.com>
>



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