Trac is an open source, web-based project management and bug-tracking tool. The program is inspired by CVSTrac, and was originally named svntrac due to its ability to interface with Subversion.[1] 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.[2] Both are free software licenses.
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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.[3]
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
- VCS web interface
- RSS Feeds
- Multiple project support (planned for post-1.0 versions)
- Environment extensibility (via Python plugins)
- iCalendar export[4]
- 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.[5] 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; 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.
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