add article about a decentralised bug tracker

Signed-off-by: Nico Schottelius <nico@ikn.schottelius.org>
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[[!meta title="I want a decentralised bugtracker"]]
I have about 50 different website accounts for submitting and reading
bugs. I use about 4 different bugtrackers regulary
(bugzilla, launchpad, ditz, Debians reportbug).
And I do not want to create another account at a different site
again. No. What I want is different:
I want to have one tool, that
* allows me to track bugs of different projects with different systems
(similar to [launchpad](http://www.launchpad.net))
* to mirror the information locally, including history
(like most [version control systems (VCS)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control))
* to add or search a bug, while being offline
(like [git](http://git-scm.com/))
* has a usable command line interface
(like [zsh](http://www.zsh.org))
So in practise, it should look something like this:
% tool
tool> init-bug-db /path/to/somewhere
tool> bug-source add project1 bugzilla://where-it-is
tool> bug-source add project2 ditz://where-it-is
tool> bug-source list
project1
project2
tool> bug-source show project2
* can submit
* url
tool> bug query project1 a-search-string
tool> bug add project1
[either ask for input or add them after the project name]
tool> bug pull project1 # get latest bugs
tool> bug push project1 # submit latest bug (-changes)
Of course all the commands should also be available on the command line as
options. If you have already created such a tool or are interested in creating
such a tool, do not hesitate to [[contact|about]] me!
[[!tag net unix]]