[chriswarbo]

I use Artemis, which was originally written for Mercurial but also supports Git. It stores issues inside a repo, so it doesn't care about where it's hosted and works completely offline without needing a Web browser. Issues are stored in Maildir format, which is widely supported standard that can be processed using off-the-shelf tools. For example, I write and comment on Artemis issues using Emacs message-mode (which was designed for Email), and I render issues to HTML using MHonArc (which was designed for mailing list archives).

I'm not claiming these tools are the best, or anything. Just that existing standards can work very well, and are a good foundation to build up UIs or whatever; rather than attempting to design something perfect from scratch.

My fork of Artemis, patched for Python3: http://www.chriswarbo.net/git/artemis

Emacs config to trigger message-mode when emacsclient is invoked as EDITOR on an Artemis issue: http://www.chriswarbo.net/git/warbo-emacs-d/git/branches/mas...

An example of HTML rendered from Artemis issues: http://www.chriswarbo.net/git/nix-config/issues/threads.html