Bryce Harrington wrote:
Version control system: Mental has been experimenting with git and trying to get it to operate with svn. This study is still very early on, but if it works out well, one day we may begin encouraging developers to use git.
Reading that thread (git, mercurial, etc.) I hadn't seen mention of bzr (bazaar-ng), a canonical-backed distributed VCS written in python, which should at least be in the evaluation mix.
Bug tracking: I have been experimenting with use of Mantis with the goal of replacing our SF bug tracker. It looks good, but the principle issue is how to migrate the bugs and their history from SF to Mantis.
Please don't overlook Trac, which seems very strong based on the results of the projects that have adopted it.
(users include many projects of inkscape's scale in community and codebase) http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracUsers
(pet favorite feature) http://trac.edgewall.org/browser/trunk/contrib/trac-post-commit-hook
(sourceforge migration) http://trac.edgewall.org/browser/trunk/contrib/sourceforge2trac.py
(kitchen sink worth of add-ons) http://trac-hacks.org/
Trac developers conveyed at a recent informal discussion (PyCon 2007) that the git and mercurial backends are working, while the bzr backend might yet need a little work. Trac wouldn't limit inkscape to Subversion, at any rate.