Over the past year or so, I've been working on a project called Cil. It's a distributed issue tracker and if you don't know what that means, let me explain.

Cil is currently a command line tool. It saves it's issues, comments and attachments as plain text files inside your project in an issues/ directory. Some settings are read from .cil and also you may set some personal preferences in ~/.cilrc.

Due to the fact that all data associ…