Welcome to Trac+Darcs+Bazaar-NG 0.9

News: there is a new DarcsPlugin for trac 0.10 (see also  TracDarcs)!

Trac is a minimalistic approach to web-based management of software projects. Its goal is to simplify effective tracking and handling of software issues, enhancements and overall progress.

This site runs a parallel branch of  Trac 0.9x enriched by two new version control system backends; Darcs and Bazaar-NG backend.

The new backends take advantage of a small GeneralizationPatch that with little impact on pristine sources move last Subversion details out of the core and opens the door to different kinds of revision systems.  Ticket #2148 seems promising it will be integrated mainstream 0.9.3, in some form.

Edgewall's people did not yet say the final words on a possible integration on the main trunk of such functionality, and they seem more oriented in a plugin based approach. Anyway, there are already a few tickets on their site that talk about this:

•  Ticket #638, on Darcs integration
•  Ticket #2086, on support for multiple repositories
•  Ticket #2733, on the GeneralizationPatch
•  VersioningSystemBackend

Installing Trac on Darcs

See the Darcs wiki:  http://www.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/TracOnDarcs

About this instance of trac

This instance is powered by  mod_python, and I recommend it as it runs trac much faster than using the CGI method. I used a versatile PythonicAuthentication setup, rather that relaying on Apache's basic mechanism.

When you browse the sources, you are actually looking at a  Darcs repository  tailorized from the master Subversion repository, that I try to keep in sync with trac's  trunk.