[mlawren]

I've been working on bif (http://bifax.org/bif/) for the past 3 years.

Bif is a project management tool with a command-line interface. It helps you track tasks, issues and bugs using a local database, exchanging updates with remote databases on demand. The tool has several features of interest to distributed project teams:

* Offline Operation - Many bif actions work offline; you can create and update tasks and issues while disconnected from the network.

* Inter-project Cooperation - Bif issues (and tasks) can be linked with (or copied to) multiple projects, mirroring the inter-project relationships that exist in the real world.

This flexibility comes with minimal additional complexity; bif commands are designed for consistency and ease of use.

Bif runs on any system that supports Perl and SQLite.

[mlawren]

I should probably also mention that bif, while functional is still alpha quality software. And so far tests only pass on Linux and the *BSDs. Testers/bug-hunters for MacOS would be appreciated.