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by yummyfajitas 5783 days ago
I don't think we need another bug tracker - bugzilla and trac do a great job already.

What I'd love to have is a command line interface to existing bug trackers.

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Some years ago I wrote one (cleverly named Tracuala) for trac. It was good enough most of the time for my needs. Trouble was, Trac didn't have a real Web API at the time, so I was hacking around cookies and authentication and what not. And when I upgraded a Trac instance, stuff broke.

Nowadays I use Pivotal Tracker, which has a very nice Web API. That allowed me to write yet another CLI tool (cleverly named Pivotal Slacker) which works quite nicely for fetching lists of stories, adding new stories, doing bulk updates or additions from yaml files, and the like.

The upshot is that all Web-based tools should try to offer a decent RESTful API as well so that folks who want additional tools can add them without having to worry about coding to the quirks of Web page scrapping.

I wrote one a while ago on a whim for the same thing. It's called TracShell. It's a command-line interface for Trac using the Trac XML-RPC plugin.

It could use some love as contributions have dropped off and I haven't had time to maintain it myself for quite a while.

However, it is quite useable.

http://code.google.com/p/tracshell

You've never used Redmine, I see!

Not that there's anything wrong with the other two, but Redmine is miles ahead, in my opinion.

Sounds like you want SD:

http://syncwith.us/

It syncs with various online bug trackers and supports full offline manipulation of the bugs. I would use it if I didn't just make a list of stuff to do in a text file.