| | 1 | Trac is basically an issue tracker and ticketing system, similar in principle to Bugzilla. It is a Python app that runs on the server. A large part of the usefulness stems from one feature: there is a commit hook that is called whenever a commit takes place. This allows parsing the commit message, looking for special commands, and thus automatically marking indicated tickets as closed/fixed. |
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| | 3 | Workflow is as follows: write up a trac ticket, which is either assigned to someone or accepted by them directly. They can solicit feedback/discussion via comments on that page and use the ticket as a TODO-list (by strikethrough via Wiki formatting of completed items). When committing changes that relate to the ticket, say in the commit message "refs #123". That causes the message to be appended to the ticket as a comment. "closes #123" would do the same and also mark the ticket as closed. |
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| | 5 | Note that any interested parties (in particular, the ticket owner) can be signed up to receive email notifications whenever the ticket is changed. |
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| | 7 | This Wiki is also a part of Trac; we would like it to replace the current !MediaWiki installation (no sense in having two). |
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| | 9 | One final useful feature is [http://trac.0ad.homeip.net/browser Browse Source]. Hit the "View Changes" button on the bottom, replace the top revision number with the desired starting revision, and it'll show a fancy diff of that changeset. Very convenient in meetings to show others what changed, or when you don't have SVN installed. |
