With the rise of static sites I'm not sure why something like this isn't much more common. Would love to see more options like this. Maybe eventually (not holding my breath) different git hosting providers will allow exporting to formats and importing to ticketing formats, so you can go from cloud to local instance or vice versa, or store tickets for mirror purposes.
Maybe someday git projects will have a /tickets folder or branch? Tickets per branch... hmmm... Maybe ignore the ones not in Master