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Put your
FIXME:
s in the source code, and use a tool like legume or ditz to manage them. (Here's an LWN "state of affairs" article from 2013 with several).IMO web based bug trackers are overkill for personal projects. A workflow based ticketing system with an external interface adds a lot of unnecessary overhead unless you want users to be able to submit bugs, and even then, email works pretty well.
Oh, this sounds interesting. I'll have to give this a try.
I don't think so. This fixme-in-the-file wouldn't suit me well for example, because a lot of my projects are not file-based, and also because I regularly find myself writing lengthy comments under my gitea tickets to preserve how did I do something, or when something doesn't work to record the symptoms and what I tried to fix it, etc.
Gitea is probably not the best tool either for this, but it's quite good, and to me objectively better: all notes (issues and their comments) are timestamped and those can't be modified by mistake, tag support, several other aspects for categorization..
If you're not working with files, then sure. For coders, putting tickets in the sourcecode enforces locality, and it also preserves history... because most people use a VCS.
But it sounds like you're using it as a journalling system, and that has different needs.