Simple Defects, the distributed issue tracking system written in Perl with hooks into Git, has been on my radar screen for awhile. I've installed it and run a few tests and it worked well, but I just don't have the familiarity I want to have with Perl yet.
I started to look around for a Ruby-based equivalent to SD and found this article by Tom Morris.
I haven't fully tested it out yet, but it sounds terrific. Its open source, and the code is available at Gitorious:
Its a Ruby forge project too:
More pages about ditz:
Hmm... I've run into a little trouble with ditz:
multiple assignment in conditional (SyntaxError)
I've forked it and might have fixed the issues.... DOH!
/home/albertlash/src/docu-ditz/lib/ditz.rb:71:in `run_pager': uninitialized constant PLATFORM (NameError)
It has to do with WIN32 so I just deleted it, but actually I'll comment it out. Yup, looks like its working OK now....
Tracker looks nice too!
Looking around at ditz some more I see its actually quite an interesting little package. It uses yaml for marshalling / serializing the issue objects in the git repository. With respect to Git, I really like the idea of using flat files for storage, and even combining files to keep management simpler. With a command line parser / interface, it totally makes sense.
But why YAML? Personally I would have preferred XML or JSON, but not a problem - it might even be possible to change which serialization method it uses.
Ooooh - there is a fresher fork of ditz stuff (and patches too):
Looks like there might even be a sinatra app in there!
Another good reason I like JSON:
CONCLUSION: I think Ditz just might be the direction I want to go!