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@@ -9,4 +9,21 @@ The support would not need to be anything fancy, assignment of bug numbers
 is perhaps the biggest thing missing when compared to a plain wiki page.
 Integration with the revision control system a la [scmbug](http://www.mkgnu.net/?q=scmbug) 
 would really neat though, so that bug tracker commands like (closes: #nnn) could 
-be embedded to the source code repository commit messages.
+be embedded to the source code repository commit messages.
+
+> A while back I posted some thoughts in my blog about 
+> [using a wiki for issue tracking](http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/using_a_wiki_for_issue_tracking.html).
+> Google's BTS also has some interesting developments along the lines of
+> free-form search-based bug tracking, a style that seems a better fit to
+> wikis than the traditional rigid data of a BTS.
+>
+> I sorta take your point about bug numbers. It can be a pain to refer to
+> 'using_a_wiki_for_issue_tracking' as a bug name in a place like a
+> changelog.
+> 
+> OTOH, I don't see a need for specially formatted commit messages to be
+> used to close bugs. Instead, if your BTS is kept in an ikiwiki wiki in
+> an RCS along with your project, you can do like I do here, and just edit a
+> bug's page, tag it `done`, and commit that along with the bug fix.
+>
+> --[[Joey]]