Comment by aitchnyu

I wanted to implement a similar tool in 2011, Ditz IIRC. The Redmine issue tracker was too finicky, it promised using a self-hosted and reliable repo as the source of truth and Netbeans as its frontend. I implemented Mercurial VCS and designated one machine as remote (a hghub) for ssh cloning and web interface, we didnt have any pesky subscriptions.