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Trac
Trac logo.svg
Trac screenshot.png
Developer(s) Edgewall Software
Initial release October 1, 2006; 6 years ago (2006-10-01)
Stable release 1.0 (September 7, 2012; 7 months ago (2012-09-07)) [±]
Preview release 1.0b1 (August 6, 2012; 8 months ago (2012-08-06)) [±][1]
Written in Python
Type Project management software, bug tracking system
License Modified BSD license
Website trac.edgewall.org

Trac is an open source web-based project management and bug tracking system. The program is inspired by CVSTrac, and was originally named svntrac due to its ability to interface with Subversion.[2] It is developed and maintained by Edgewall Software.

Trac is written in the Python programming language. Until mid-2005, it was available under the GNU General Public License; since version 0.9, it has been released under a modified BSD license.[3]

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[edit] Features

Trac allows hyperlinking information between a bug database, revision control and wiki content. It also serves as a web interface to the following revision control systems: Subversion, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, Perforce and Darcs. Prior to version 0.11 the web front end presentation of Trac was handled by the ClearSilver template system. Starting with 0.11 an in-house template system called Genshi is used, although compatibility with ClearSilver based plugins will remain for several versions.[4]

Other features include:

  • Project management (Roadmap, Milestones, etc.)
  • Ticket system (bug tracking, tasks, etc.)
  • Fine-grained permissions (since 0.11)
  • Timeline of all recent activity
  • Wiki (syntax similar to MoinMoin)
  • Customized reporting
  • version control system web interface
  • RSS feeds
  • Multiple project support (planned for post-1.0 versions)
  • Environment extensibility (via Python plugins)
  • iCalendar export[5]
  • Multiple repository Support per environment (since 0.12)
  • Interface localizations (since 0.12)

[edit] Adoption

Trac is reported to have more than 450 major installations worldwide.[6] Among the users of Trac is NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which reports that it uses this tool to manage various deep space and near space projects; Twisted, an asynchronous networking framework implemented in Python; the Dojo Toolkit, one of the popular Open source JavaScript library projects; Nginx, an open source Web server and a reverse proxy server; Piwik, a free software equivalent to services like Google Analytics; and WordPress, the popular blogging platform, all use Trac for bug tracking and as a source tree viewer. Some projects also use Trac's wiki.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ , edgewall.org, August 6, 2012 http://trac.edgewall.org/browser/tags/trac-1.0b1/RELEASE  Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ^ "Trac and Subversion". Edgewall Trac. Retrieved May 19, 2008. 
  3. ^ "TracLicense - The Trac Project". Edgewall Trac. Retrieved March 6, 2007. 
  4. ^ "ClearSilver - The Trac Project". Edgewall Trac. January 27, 2007. Retrieved February 6, 2007. 
  5. ^ "The Trac Roadmap". Edgewall Trac. Retrieved September 14, 2009. 
  6. ^ "Who uses Trac?". Edgewall Trac. June 25, 2008. Retrieved June 25, 2008. 

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