Keep “Trac” of your work

Knut Urdalen | http://www.urdalen.com

What is Trac?

• Integrated Source Control- and Project Management

• Tightly integrated with Subversion

• Key features

• Wiki

• Roadmap

• Timeline

• Tickets

Wiki

• A nice tool to document your project together with your code

• Familiar WikiWord syntax

• Tickets: #123

• Changeset: [123]

Roadmap

• High level overview of project status

• Show groups of tickets as “Milestones”

Timeline

• View all activities

• Wiki page events (creation and changes)

• Tickets events (creation and changes)

• Source code changes (repository check-ins)

• Milestone completion

• RSS feed

Changeset

• All information about a change in the source code including:

• Timestamp: When the changeset was commited

• Author: Who did it?

• Message: The commit log message

• Files: A list of affected files

• Visual diff

Changeset

Tickets

• Simple and effective tracking of issues

• Used for

• Project tasks

• Feature requests

• Bug reports

• Support issues

Browser

Email Notification of Ticket Changes

• Useful to keep users up-to-date on tickets/issues of interest

• Provides a convenient way to post all ticket changes to a dedicated mailing list

[notification]smtp_enabled = truesmtp_server = smtp.example.orgsmtp_from = trac@example.org smtp_replyto = project@example.orgsmtp_always_cc = manager@example.org, boss@example.org

Peer Review (Plugin)

Build Orchestration with Bitten (Plugin)

Build Orchestration with Bitten (Plugin)

Revision Graph (Plugin)

References

• Trac: http://trac.edgewall.org

• Plugins: http://trac-hacks.org

• Bitten: http://bitten.cmlenz.net