alt Hacker News> Stuff like git-bug exists, but then you still need participation from other people.
The plan is to 1) finish the webUI and 2) accept external auth (e.g. github OAuth). Once done, anyone can trivially host publicly their own forge and accept public contribution without any buy-in effort. Then, if user wants to go native they just install git-bug locally.
Whoa, git-bug is still being developed, awesome! I wonder how difficult it would be to add other tables to it (I cannot help but think about bug trackers as being a database with a frontend like Access, and many limitations...) — in particular to have Messages (for messages) and Discussions (for hierarchical list of message references). Now that git has reftable maybe this sort of abuse would actually work...