Task/issue tracking system with command-line interface [closed]

Question

Are the any task tracking systems with command-line interface?

Here is a list of features I'm interested in:

• Simple task template
  Something like plain-text file with property:type pairs, for example:

description:string  
some-property:integer required

• command line interface
  for example:

// Creates task
<task tracker>.exe -create {description: "Foo", some-property: 1}   
// Search for tasks with description field starting from F
<task tracker>.exe -find { description: "F*" } 

• XCopy deployment
  It should not require to install heavy DBMS

• Multiple users support
  So it's not just a to-do list for a single person

Caracara

What kind of task do you mean? Bug-Tickets and Feature-Requests? – Assassinate

Answer 1

Ditz is a simple, light-weight distributed issue tracker designed to work with distributed version control systems like darcs and git.

Ditz: http://web.archive.org/web/20121212202849/http://gitorious.org/ditz

Also cloned here: https://github.com/jashmenn/ditz

Krystlekrystyna

almost what I want. but datamodel is not extensible – Caracara

The link is dead. Does it moved somewhere? – Assassinate

Answer 2

Interesting idea; the closest thing I have heard of is todo.txt.

Alternatively, you could roll your own by just using a database (e.g. sqllite) and SQL. Optionally, write a wrapper script that parses your plain-text file and command-line options, and generates the corresponding SQL.

Undercurrent

My understanding is that you can't use todo.txt on different projects. Seems like it requires you to store the location (TODO_DIR="path/to/todofile") of your single todo.txt in a centralized todo.cfg file. Or? – Ence

Answer 3

Have you seen ticgit. It sounds like it might do just what you guys are after.

Barbuto

Interesting thing, I'll take a closer look – Caracara

Here is a link to the current (summer2014) active fork: github.com/jeffWelling/ticgit – Scharff

Answer 4

Erlangs Ticket System

Created by Peter Högfeldt in 1986. This is the ticket system that was used in the Erlang distribution.

Source: Joe Armstrong's blog

Meninges

Answer 5

http://roundup.sourceforge.net/

Felicefelicia

Answer 6

@Peter Hilton,

I'm going to create such system. So I'm wondering whether such system exists. General idea is to keep it as simple as possible: command line utility to manage tasks & simple server wit REST interface. I used dozen different task tracking system and come to conclusion that I don't need fancy UI. It should be like Subversion - you can happily work with command-line based svn.exe

Caracara

Answer 7

I've abused the cal and calendar commandline tools regularly for this type of task.

Rexfourd

Answer 8

ciss issue tracker is a simple commandline tool for managing your ISSUES.txt file.

Ence

Ciss looks dead. – Assassinate

Answer 9

Fogbugz has a Command Line Client.

Dustpan

Nope, fogbugz is to heavy, I'm looking for something like svn – Caracara

That's been deprecated. Came here looking for something like this, turns out the replacement is exactly what I was looking for. – Salade

Answer 10

Have a look at Pitz and Bugs Everywhere.

Grussing

Both links are dead. – Assassinate

Answer 11

I use org-mode with emacs in terminal mode (emacs -nw).

Lemniscate

Answer 12

We have used a few tools earlier. We now use a GitHub private repository to maintain various developer TBD lists (as .md files) and issue tracking because of the following advantages:

• Developers are already using GitHub and they don't need to learn anything new.
• Developers can use whatever tool they are comfortable with to maintain TBD list; command line or graphical editors, GitHub web interface or plenty of mobile clients
• Markdown support
• Reliable backup
• Merging and revision history
• Flexible file organization for different projects and modules

Eulalie