On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 09:15:40PM -0600, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
> 
> 
> On Jun 21, 2008, at 9:09 PM, Eli wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Friday 20 June 2008 01:04:03 pm Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
> > [snip]
> >> installing AccountManager). I would propose an alternate solution,  
> >> the
> >> creation of a "new" project that is officially recognized by t.e.o  
> >> in some
> >> way as being the turnkey solution so many people want. Perhaps  
> >> something
> >> like bitnami+oforge+some common options and config settings. "Trac"  
> >> remains
> >> the minimalist system we all know and love, and anyone installing  
> >> it will
> >> continue to get the same experience. People wanting the turnkey  
> >> version can
> >> get $NEWPROJECT, and not care about what particular components it  
> >> pulls in.
> >
> > I don't think we should start $NEWPROJECT.  Trac has a lot of name
> > recognition... and we need to keep that.
> >
> > Just for the record, the plugins I use on most every Trac I setup:
> > AccountManager and Graphviz.  The latter I don't see as an item for  
> > 'core',
> > but graphviz is an awesome tool. :)
> >
> >
> > Other comments regarding this thread; primary audience is the other  
> > devs:
> >
> > I think that AccountManager needs to migrate to Trac core just as  
> > WebAdmin
> > did.  And I think the form-based login needs to be the default.   
> > Since 0.12
> > is "translation & internationalization", I don't think we should  
> > include it
> > in our next release... but I think we need to get 0.12 out ASAP.   
> > Then add
> > AccountManager to core, and call it 0.13, and again, get that  
> > release out
> > ASAP.  We need to improve our "momentum" (for lack of a better term).
> >
> > I think we (the developers) need to take this discussion as  
> > something of
> > a 'wake-up call'.  I don't think we should go into a panic, but I  
> > think we
> > need to go back and challenge some of the things we "know" about our  
> > users'
> > needs.  Our user base has been growing... but I think it has been  
> > growing in
> > different proportions to what it started as, so our user base as a  
> > whole is
> > probably very different than it was.
> 
> There had been some talk on IRC about doing a voluntary usage  
> statistics as part of the install and upgrade processes. Data like  
> installed plugins, number of users, size of wiki and ticket database,  
> version control system in use, etc etc. We all kind of dislike the  
> idea, as they usually turn into PR nightmares. What do all you non- 
> Trac-developers think about this?
> 
> --Noah

I'm +1 if this idea is easily doable, -1 if it turns into a PR nightmare and 
too much work for the $

jeff

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