It'd be great if there was a web service of some kind that allowed arbitrary clients to connect to project_issue to create and update issues. Not only would this help the d.o testbot (see point 5 in the summary at #1510856: [META] testing infra input for the D7 Project* sprint) it'd also potentially help with #1078108: Drush issue queue commands and it could potentially pave the way for all kinds of interesting and useful things (e.g. fancy IDE integration, etc).

It's possible that #1710850: Deploy RestWS for D7 project issue JSON might help with this.

This has been on my radar for ages (see http://3281d.com/projects/remote-issue-queues and #271216: abstract comment creation functionality for example) but I don't believe we ever had an issue on d.o open about it. This has to wait until d.o is running D7 and we're open for new features again. But, I just wanted to open an issue now as a placeholder for continuing this discussion.

Cheers,
-Derek