Thanks very much for your reply. Yes, that is a concern. We haven't fully committed to doing this yet, but we know that our current system does not work. There are several code bases that are in subversion but have no Trac. The last thing we need is to go from 10-20 Trac installations which each have only a few wiki pages and a dozen tickets. Each project is somewhat unique, but there are tons of inter-dependencies and many developers are working on multiple projects at once.
Has anyone considered a plugin to add timeline filters? I can imagine doing somewhat robust system where you define a certain wiki namespace (eg wiki/Bitten), set of components and milestones, and subversion paths for implicit filtering, perhaps in addition to a more hard coded system link GenericTrac. Has anyone else done work on sub projects or multi project situations that are worth looking at? On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:33 AM, Christian Boos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Chris, > > Chris Mulligan wrote: > > Hi folks (particularly Christian), > > > > We have about 10 Trac installs running, mostly on a single machine but > > some on others. They're all on 0.10.4 right now. There are only about > > 5 that are high volume, and only some of them have subversion > > repositories. > > > > We're interested in merging our repositories and tracs down to one or > > two instances. To help with this we're considering migrating all the > > repositories to a Mercurial forest and merging the wikis and tickets > > to a single Trac. I'm not especially concerned with merging the > > tickets, etc. A little bit of sick creativity (trac 1 ticket #300 > > becomes #1300, trac 2 ticket #60 becomes #2060. Wiki conflicts become > > wiki/trac1/Conflict and wiki/trac2/Conflict) and we should be good to > > go. > > > > Our main issue is trac hg forest support. I see that it's not really > > supported at TracMercurial, but I also seem some recent activity. A > > checkout just now of 0.11b2, multirepos and TracMercurial 0.12 isn't > > working (it sees no revisions at the forest level). Is forest support > > being developed now? Is there something we can do to encourage its > > development? > > > > Thanks for your interest in the multiple repository support! > A couple of remarks: if you use the multirepos branch, you don't need to > have 0.11b2 around - just install Trac from that checkout. > > Also, you don't necessarily need to convert your Subversion repositories > to Mercurial, as "mixed" backends are supported. However there's no > cache yet (so for Subversion you'd have to use the direct-svnfs type). > An enhanced vc cache layer will be the next step, and if you have big > repositories, that will really be needed (unless you have a /really/ > beefy server ;-) ). > > As for the forest support, well, that's just a few lines of code away > and Ido Sebastiaan van Oostveen even started the effort a few months ago > - see http://hg.trbs.net/), so this just needs to be finalized. > > On a related note, I think you're attempting this project consolidation > in order to be able to have a global overview of the activity of the > different projects, sharing common knowledge in the wiki, consolidated > search and queries, this sort of things. But won't you lack the ability > to have more focused "views" about what's going on? In particular, one > of the risks is that you'll get lots of information in the timeline, > which has currently no good filtering capabilities. I ask this because I > start to feel the need to go in the opposite direction (split a big > project into multiple ones), but of course with keeping the possibility > to have an overview when needed. So I'll soon start to work on multiple > project support, which should complement the multiple repository support > (each project will have one default repository and possibly others, like > the single project currently do in the multirepos branch). Migrating > multiple projects into one won't even require sick creativity in this > setup ;-) > > -- Christian > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" group. To post to this group, send email to trac-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
