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Welcome to the Trac Project.¶
Welcome to the Trac open source project.
Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software project management. Our mission is to help developers write great software while staying out of the way. Trac should impose as little as possible on a team's established development process and policies.
It provides an interface to Subversion, an integrated Wiki and convenient reporting facilities.
Trac allows wiki markup in issue descriptions and commit messages, creating links and seamless references between bugs, tasks, changesets, files and wiki pages. A timeline shows all current and past project events in order, making the acquisition of an overview of the project and tracking progress very easy. The roadmap shows the road ahead, listing the upcoming milestones.
Live Demo¶
If you want to test out some of the features in Trac please use the demo site kindly provided by hosted-projects.com. The site you are currently visiting tracks the actual development of the Trac project, so please don't make edits here simply for the sake of testing Trac.
Good Starting Points¶
- TracGuide -- Starting point for Trac documentation.
- TracFaq -- Frequently asked questions.
- TracDownload -- Trac is open source software, available for download,
- MailingList -- Join the mailinglist for user and developer discussions,
- IrcChannel -- Chat and discuss Trac or get support.
- ChangeLog -- Recent changes between Trac releases,
- PluginList -- Plugins for extending Trac
- TracProject -- Learn more about the project and get involved (see also HowToContribute),
- RoadMap -- The proverbial road ahead.
- TracTeam -- It's their fault - well not really.
- AboutTrac -- Links to presentation materials, references, etc.
For a complete list of available wiki pages, see TitleIndex.
About This Wiki¶
This is the TracWiki, editable by its users. This is a feature. If you want to learn more, first read TracWiki.
Trac Users¶
Are you curious who is using Trac, or would like to list your own name, visit the TracUsers page.
See also: TracGuide, TracWiki.
Trac Main Features¶
Open source project management tool¶
Trac is a lightweight project management tool that is implemented as a web-based application, written in the Python programming language. It emphasizes ease of use and low ceremony, and is open source.
Ideal for managing software developments, it is flexible enough to use for many types of projects. As it's open source, if it doesn't quite fit your needs, you could always make changes yourself, write plugins, or commission someone else to do so.
Ticket system¶
Track the progress of resolving individual bugs, issues, feature requests, and ideas - each with its own ticket (numbered, as in a waiting room queue system). Easily reconcile overlapping tickets (where more than one person reports the same thing). Search and filter tickets by severity, project component, version or owner (among others).
View progress¶
Trac gives you a number of convenient ways to stay on top of events and changes within a project. You can set milestones, and view a roadmap of progress towards them (as well as historical achievements) in summary. There is a timeline of individual changes so you can see the order of events, starting with the most recent. Trac supports RSS for content syndication: allowing people to subscribe to those changes outside Trac itself, as well as email notification.
Online repository viewing¶
Trac gives a highly usable browsing and management front-end for Subversion, a modern open-source version control system. Trac gives you clear and elegant code highlighting and file comparison, so you can easily see how files differ. Using plugins, Trac also supports other version control software.
User management¶
Trac has a simple permission system to control what users can and can't access.
Wiki¶
Built-in documentation server, which can be used for developer or user resources. As it's a Wiki, it can be set up to allow shared editing. Uses MoinMoin syntax and magic links to tickets, reports and source.
Features provided through plugins¶
There are a range of plugins available supporting additional features, from anti-spam to Gantt charts and time tracking.
Future features¶
0.11¶
PageTemplates
Discussion¶
Things I don't know Trac has or hasn't: (questions)¶
* Bug categories? (there's priorities) * Development Calendar? (think so; at least I see one in our test installation) * Bug type flow (e.g. bugs migrate from unconfirmed->prioritized->confirmed->fixed)? * Is there a "resource planning" possibility? Something that Gantt charts would provide, maybe?
Comparisons¶
To make this page particularly valuable, consider which features Trac sports/lacks in contrast to other popular systems, such as BugZilla?, JIRA, Confluence, MediaWiki, FogBugz.
- Wikipedia hosts a comparison of issue (& bug) tracking systems ...although Trac's entry is a bit out of date.
If this page covers both its relative strengths and weaknesses, this would be a great page -- letting potential users know exactly what they'll get, how much work they'll need to do to get it running, and what competing packages can offer!
Rationale¶
... and why not discuss all of this on the MailingList? ;)
. . . I was trying to create a page that answers the first FAQ: Where is the features summary.
- This page would be a great help for people needing to pick an issue tracking system out of the myriad available.
- Well, I read this, and it did not help me with my question at all: "Could Trac be useful for me and my Projects?"
- so true, this page eventually needs a total conversion ;-)