Using Mercurial with TFS-like work item tracking

Question

Does Mercurial offer any type of extensions that offer functionality similar to TFS's work items that when you check in changes that you can associate them to features/defects?

If there isn't much (or any) support for this, how do you handle ALM using Mercurial?

Answer 1

there is the Bugzilla extension but this isn't quite what you want out of the box i think? it may be a good starting point though if you want to write your own extension/hooks to do exactly what you want

if you want to pay money cash then there is fogbugz and kiln

Answer 2

What you may be looking for is called a distributed bugtracker. There is a number of those available on top of that or another dvcs. I've come across a couple of links:

1. Bugs Everywhere
2. DisTract
3. Distributed bug tracking