Miscellaneous thoughts on Trac
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 0:17Joannes Vermorel has posted on migrating from the Axosoft OnTime bug tracker to the open source issue tracker Trac. Here are some thoughts, that were spiked off by the topic:
Trac does integrate really nicely with the TortoiseSVN:
You could configure TSVN to recognize issue numbers like #134 in the commit messages and turn them into the URLs that point to the appropriate web page.
Trac does keep track of all the SVN commits (along with the ticket and wiki changes) and all #ID numbers are treated as links in the timeline as well (additionally you can reference milestones and wiki articles in SVN commit messages, and they will be decoded).
Trac (at least in the default installation and in my opinion) does not fit really well into Agile-type of the development (esp. when used in teams with the complex organizational and management structure). But it can play out really well in small and medium teams, when it is used along the lines of the classical Project Management approach and is utilized merely as light-weight tool to pass tasks/assignments from the Microsoft Project to the resources and track their execution.
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