Fossil Review

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Fossil includes a bug-tracker, along with source-code management and a wiki, and technotes - all in a distributed model. It's the system that supports sqlite development.

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PlatformsWindows, Linux, Mac, BSD

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Pros

Pro
Very complete

Fossil includes source code management, bug tracking, a wiki, and technotes.
It even includes its own web server, though it can fairly easily be incorporated into other webservers.

Pro
Self-contained

A Fossil repository is contained in a single file.

Pro
Cross-platform

Fossil can run on Linux, Mac, BSD derivatives and on Windows.

Pro
Very easy to configure as self-hosted

Single, stand-alone executable, including web server.

Pro
Needs very few server resources

Since Fossil is a distributed VCS on top of being a bug tracker, it needs very few server resources.

Cons

Con
Only a web interface or CLI

Fossil's bug tracker only works with the web interface or the command-line interface. There's no native GUI client supporting it.
There are some independent GUI clients out there, but none of them support Fossil's full range of abilities.