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What are some recommended plugins for Trac? [closed]
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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.

My question is to the admins/users of Trac: which ones are indespensible for making Trac feature complete and which ones should be avoided (e.g. stability issues)?

Thayne answered 11/10, 2008 at 17:38 Comment(0)
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Lots of Trac plugins look promising. Unfortunately only a handful really delivers and even then some of them are not properly supported or maintained. They also tend to conflict sometimes.

I will not recommend anything for project management specifically but these are the ones which made our live so much easier:

  • TagsPlugin - the most useful one, adds tags support
  • BreadCrumbsNav - show previously visited pages, saves lots of time
  • ShowPath - show the breadcrumbs path, useful if you have your pages named hierarchically
  • CaseInsensitiveWiki - allows entering case-insensitive URLS
  • Stratistics - show Wiki/SVN statistics
  • WikiRename - allows page renaming (does not work well with the Tags)

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  • WebAdmin - pre-installed in 0.11 but before you need to get it separately
Euphonic answered 11/10, 2008 at 19:59 Comment(0)
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My Favorites:

General:

Scrum - Agilo: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/AgiloForScrumPlugin

This is the place to watch http://trac-hacks.org/

Omasum answered 1/5, 2009 at 13:33 Comment(1)
Would really help if you could add one line description of why you think its a good plugin. – Bung
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Besides those already mentioned here, I also found the following necessary:

  1. Announcer - very flexible notification scheme
  2. AutocompleteUsers - handy while typing (existent) user name
  3. AutoLinks - automatically make words not conforming to wiki naming rule but matches existent page name a link
  4. CustomFieldAdmin - make manage custom fields easier
  5. Redirect - handy if you constantly need to make short-hand name wiki pages (like HTML redirects to HyperText .....)
  6. TicketDelete - make deleting, if at all needed, easier
  7. WikiRename - must-have for wiki refactoring

Below are good-to-have:

  1. S5 - directly render wiki pages as slideshow in S5 format, could be really useful for using Trac as the source for presentation
  2. FullBlog - add blogging support to Trac
  3. Vote - cool add-on feature for big team
  4. TracWikiToPdf - transform wiki page to pdf dynamically (however the effect might be all that satisfying)
  5. TimingAndEstimation - neat for tracking time and/or estimation
Aney answered 29/6, 2009 at 3:14 Comment(0)
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I really like the BatchModifyPlugin that makes it easy to change more than one ticket at the time.

Covering answered 12/10, 2008 at 1:18 Comment(1)
Four years later and this functionality has been added to Trac 1.0. – Soll
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MasterTicketsPlugin is quite useful for ticket dependncies.

Devise answered 26/12, 2008 at 23:10 Comment(0)
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I would recommend against Bitten for CI (Continuous Integration) (see Martin Fowler on the subject) although I am using it.

The task force behind Bitten doesn't seem strong enough to process the remaining tasks. Simply look at the age and the number of posts in Bitten tickets

Kippie answered 16/6, 2009 at 11:17 Comment(0)
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I don't admin our Trac, and I don't know all the plugins we use. But I co-developed a GUI we use to navigate the tickets and to track time spent on specific ones. It uses the xmlrpc plugin to query ticket information and to write some information back. Extending Trac is really easy this way.

Eureetloir answered 11/10, 2008 at 18:5 Comment(0)
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my must-have list of plugins:

some may be part of trac since 0.12

and a script:

Lush answered 29/12, 2010 at 18:26 Comment(0)
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Apache Bloodhound is a collection of plugins bundled with Trac. It includes some of the individual plugins suggested in earlier answers, like the AccountManagerPlugin.

The major plugins developed as part of Bloodhound are a very robust Multi Product implementation, full text search (based on Whoosh) with better navigation. Ticket relations have also just been added.

Bloodhound keeps integrating newly released trac versions quickly, and all plugins interoperate as expected because they're purposefully bundled. It's also still compatible with most trac-hacks.

Anitraaniweta answered 31/5, 2013 at 15:16 Comment(0)
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What plugins you will consider must-have depends heavily on your use case.

Must-have plugins if you need more power in creating advanced wiki pages:

Must-have plugins if you like IDE-style auto-completion and indentation features in the text editor:

Must-have plugins if you use many Mercurial repositories:

Must-have plugins if you ...

But if you don't have these use cases, you will not find the plugins valuable.

Planospore answered 4/6, 2015 at 11:17 Comment(0)

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