Hello Tibor, Travis et al, > > On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, Brooks, Travis C. wrote: >> So, shall we set up a parallel INSPIRE Trac instance? > > Yes, I think so. Let's use the Invenio Trac instance for a few days, > configure it to the will, and I'll then clone it for INSPIRE.
Sorry to jump in without being asked. A couple of years ago we evaluated Trac for internal use for our DDD site and other library related projectS. The last S is important: we, like many others, are inveolved in more than one project. Doing it in Trac was not possible at that time, but rather, you have to set several Trac instances, and duplicate users, permissions, and so on. Then, it is not possible to know all tickets (tasks, or whatever) assigned to a specific person, or priorise them across projects. There are a couple of pages in the Trac site about this: http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracMultipleProjects and the infamous http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/130. In this last ticked (http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/130#comment:52) I learned about DrProject (https://www.drproject.org/), a Trac fork with multiproject support, that we are very pleased to use here at UAB. The trouble is that DrProject is now a dead project. The students at the University of Toronto that wrote them under the leadership of Dr Greg Wilson are rewriting it under the Django framework and it will be called Basie (https://basieproject.org/), but it is not finished yet. However, there are a couple of alternatives since then: Retrospectiva (http://retrospectiva.org/) and Redmine (http://www.redmine.org/) both in Ruby. Redmine seems to be more mature and it is already packaged for Debian, a big plus for us (http://packages.debian.org/redmine). It is also multidatabase, multilingual, multi DVCS (including git), etc. etc. We have not decided yet which one we will migrate to, since we are not in a hurry, but my question is: are you sure to want to migrate to a isolated tool where will be no relation between your (at least) two different instances? A couple of posts about Trac vs Redmine: http://changelog.complete.org/archives/696-thoughts-on-redmine http://changelog.complete.org/archives/701-at-long-last-softwarecompleteorg-migrated-to-redmine Again, please excuse my 0.2 cents here, Ferran
