Deft is a simple distributed feature tracker (aka issue tracker, task tracker) designed to work with a distributed version control system such as Git.

• all features have status (e.g. new, in-development, ready-for-testing, ready-for-deployment)
• absolute prioritisation of features that have the same status
• store feature database alongside the code in VCS, not in another tool
• store the feature database in plain-text files that play well with VCS and diff/merge tools
• don't re-implement functionality that is already in the VCS

Deft is in an early stage of development so there's no convenient installer yet. To get it up and running:

• Make sure you have Python 2.7 and virtualenv installed
• Check out the repo
• Run make env to create a python environment for development
• Run make to run all the tests.
• The dev-deft script will run deft from the development environment, so you don't need to install anything by hand. Run dev-deft --help for help.

Now read the Quickstart Guide.

Issues are tracked with Deft itself. If you want to raise issues:

• Fork the repo & check it out locally
• Follow the 'Getting Started' steps
• use the ./dev-deft command to create a new issue
• commit the new issue
• send a pull request

Yes... there should be a tool to make this process simpler and easy for a project's users to do.