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https://radicle.dev/

Are radicle issues and PRs stored in the Git repository itself, or is it out of band like other forges, with just federation on top?

yes, they're stored in git itself. See https://radicle.dev/guides/protocol#collaborative-objects

The most important part of Linus' project was day -1, when he sliced off all the chunks of work that depend on solving open research problems.

You don't want to start your Saturday morning declaring an _action struct, then filling the rest of the day staring at research papers about the current state of fast homomorphic encryption.

Check out Epiq https://github.com/ljtn/epiq

It was born out of frustration and does just that. It is about to go v1 within days.

It was 10 days, but that's fine too.