trac

What bug tracking software do you use?

I'm currently looking at Bugzilla and Trac, as they seem to be the most popular (and I'm hoping that also means if there are any problems, it will be easier to get help), but I'm curious what solutions you use or have used and what your thoughts are. I'm currently leaning toward Trac, as it's Wiki functionality can be used to support do...

Trac in a Scrum team : What are the best plugins / hacks ?

I want to setup a Trac server to support my developer team work along with Bitten as a Continuous Integration server. We are using the Scrum development process. What are the Trac's plugins, hacks, macros or configurations I could use to fit my team needs ? ...

How do I implement the Post Commit Hook with Trac & SVN in a Windows Environment?

I'm running in a windows environment with Trac / SVN and I want commits to the repository to integrate to Trac and close the bugs that were noted in the SVN Comment. I know there's some post commit hooks to do that, but there's not much information about how to do it on windows. Anyone done it successfully? And what were the steps you...

How to setup Trac to run at / with Lighttpd on a subdomain

I have the following config in my lighttpd.conf: $HTTP["host"] == "trac.domain.tld" { server.document-root = "/usr/home/daniels/trac/htdocs/" fastcgi.server = ( "/trac" => ( "trac" => ( "socket" => "/tmp/trac-fastcgi.sock", "bin-pa...

How to quickly add tickets in Trac?

It's very painful to add multiple tickets to Trac or to have it as your own todo list. That causes people to use their own task management tools so tasks are then spread all around. Is there any plugin or macro that would quicken the process of adding a ticket? ...

Running Trac on Windows?

Looking for a guide/tutorial that easily explains how to setup and run trac with subversion on windows. ...

Configure trac for anonymous ticket submissions

The title says it all: How would one configure trac to allow anonymous submission of tickets? ...

Getting "database is locked" error messages from Trac

Wondering if anyone has gotten the infamous "database is locked" error from Trac and how you solved it. It is starting to occur more and more often for us. Will we really have to bite the bullet and migrate to a different DB backend, or is there another way? See these two Trac bug entries for more info: http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/...

"cannot find -lpq" when trying to install psycopg2

Intro: I'm trying to migrate our Trac SQLite to a PostgreSQL backend, to do that I need psycopg2. After clicking past the embarrassing rant on www.initd.org I downloaded the latest version and tried running setup.py install. This didn't work, telling me I needed mingw. So I downloaded and installed mingw. Problem: I now get the followin...

Migration To Trac

We are managing our development with Subversion over HTTPS, Bugzilla, and Mediawiki. Some of our developers have expressed an interest in migrating to Trac, so I have to evaluate what the cost of doing so would be. For both the wiki and bugzilla, we would need to either migrate the existing data into Trac or a way to integrate with t...

Twiki/Source Control with fine-grained permissions for internal and external use

We've been using trac and svn internally with fairly good results. Now we'd like to open up parts of our system to external vendors - eg. we'd like to create an area on the twiki for our external designer to upload images, document things, and so forth. We need to be able to restrict his access to only that part of the twiki. Similarly ...

trac and svn (tortoise) - "Issue Tracker Plugin" - ( yes, yet another svn and trac question)

I would like to be able to "get information from the issue tracker" as described in the section "Getting Information from the Issue Tracker" at: http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-bugtracker.html (display a dlg box to the user when they start a commit action in svn so they can choose form a list of issues assign...

How can I best take advantage of Trac?

I have a Trac project installed on top of a Subversion implementation (easy to do thanks to Webfaction's control panel), but now I have configuration work to do. With that in mind, are there easy ways to do the following in Trac: 1) Ensure that customers can only see a high level progress indicator. 2) Give daily summary reports on tic...

What are some recommended plugins for Trac?

In particular, I need a more full fledged version of Trac to support robust project management, and task tracking. I went through the plugins and literally found over 50 that looked promising. But, my question is to the admins/users of Trac: which ones are indespensible for making Trac feature complete? Also, which ones should be ...

Assembla: Do you like Trac tickets or Assembla tickets and why?

I am a single developer just getting started with open source web dev (Python/Django). I signed up for a free Assembla.com account but I really don't know whether to use Trac ticketing or Assembla integrated ticketing. I have setup spaces for both to try them out, but it seems like I would need to use them for a while before I saw clear ...

Tracd Realm

Hi, I am trying to setup tracd for the project I am currently working on. After creating a password file with the python script given in the site I am trying to start the server with authentication on. But it throws up warning saying No users found in the realm. What actually is a realm - I tried using trac as the value and also tried l...

What is the best Agile methodology for a class project?

The project is poorly defined: we are to write educational software for CS 111 Computer Programming I students focusing on functions. We have 6 student developers with various backgrounds working in Flex. The project has a duration of about 7 weeks. We have very limited face time (30 min per week) and very limited work time (<8 hours per...

Any suggestions on a Trac "whine" like bugzilla?

Has anyone implemented functionality (within trac or using external tools) to get the functionality of the bugzilla "whine"? (a report(s) run and the results emailed periodically - basically I want a weekly reminder sent to each assignee with a list of their open issues. ...

How to improve Trac's performance

I have noticed that my particular instance of Trac is not running quickly and has big lags. This is at the very onset of a project, so not much is in Trac (except for plugins and code loaded into SVN). Setup Info: This is via a SELinux system hosted by WebFaction. It is behind Apache, and connections are over SSL. Currently the .htpa...

How do you fix a Trac installation that begins giving errors relating to PYTHON_EGG_CACHE?

We've been using Trac for task/defect tracking and things were going well enough, but this morning it started serving up a 500 error. Looking in the Apache error_log, I get a stack trace that culminates in: PythonHandler trac.web.modpython_frontend: ExtractionError: Can't extract file(s) to egg cache The following error occurred whi...