I think your critique of the usability of the tools is completely spot-on, but I wanted to note one thing you reminded me about here: > The bug tracker can be

I think your critique of the usability of the tools is completely spot-on, but I wanted to note one thing you reminded me about here: > The bug tracker can be heavily customized, and get ready to do so, but it still has irritating limitations that are, when I checked a few years ago, WONTFIX limitations. Sending emails on bug tracker activity is one. The modern Fossil versions can be compiled with real Tcl for scripting, rather than just TH1, which makes solving this problem, and a pile of other automation-centric issues, very trivial--at least if you don't mind coding in Tcl. (NB, you only need to do this on the central server, for obvious reasons; everyone else can just use the off-the-shelf binaries.) The rest of your comment completely stands, and is why I don't actually use Fossil.