Just to throw in my 2cents. A little background: I maintain the TimingAndEstimationPlugin (http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/ TimingAndEstimationPlugin), which seems to be fairly widely adopted for people who want to track their time with Trac. I wrote the first version of this plugin against trac 9 with a first release sometime near trac 10's release.
My preferred route for functionality like this (and MasterTicket / Dynamic Report Variables / etc) would be to bless some plugins with auto inclusion into the trac install (disabled by default). I greatly value that trac is simple to use. I recently helped teach a Software Engineering class that made use of trac. I feel that it could not have been used if it was more toward the bugzilla side of issue tracking (way too complex for a first go at software management). That said, part of the project was to estimate and track time (which is convenient since I wrote the plugin). I am sure that others will want to have only ticket dependancies and not time tracking, or only custom reports with a variable filling form. All of these are essential for the group of users that need them and the system cannot be complete without them. By blessing and including these plugins with trac we can keep the simplicity, while easily enabling plugins that fill out the functionality we need. One thought I have been kicking around is a package management plugin for trac that would be able download and install a plugin and update trac from the web admin screen. But this would really need to be included in Trac (or as a blessed / pre-included plugin) to alleviate the same frustrations that users are expressing in this thread. With a package manager and "blessed" plugins, I think that the disagreements over what functionality should be included by default can be mitigated to some extent. Cheers, Russ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
