Henning Sprang wrote: > I'm a user in the process of coming back to TRAC - having used it many years > before, but having used redmine Try SimpleMultiProjectPlugin to have what you've missed from Redmine.
> ** There's a "very old" 0.x version Just bugfix versions for those who cannot upgrade to 1.0 >, an "old" 1.0.x version, and a 1.1.x that is said to be the "latest and >greatest" but unstable, and also without a recent release - I tend to chose >1.1.x but I am reluctant to put valueable data in an alpha version. "Stable" (1.0) means it's supported to be always fully compatible during Trac upgrades, "unstable" (1.1) means it could happen that you must (by knowing some internal backgrounds) manually tweak your trac.db or configuration when the new features of 1.1 are merged back to the next stable (1.2). If you look in the past this actually never happened, such merges kept almost always binary compatibility, but it's not promised. > * Is TRAC actively developed at the moment? My impression: After about 2 years of stalled development (because the old core developer generation (rblank + cboos) has a growing lack of time for active development) there's been recently a fresh breath in the core team since rjollos has entered the stage. Also jomae and jun66j5 are on board at the moment. > ** If so, why are the releases so delayed? The plans were more optimistic than there was spare time left (read above). Now the generation change needs an introduction to the release procedure like the translation file packaging and so on (read here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/trac-dev/l5YuG7DysOE ). > If not - can I help somewhere to make it more active again, for example to > get development of the "latest and greatest" 1.1.x versions to a stable state? It's like always with Open Source projects. There's no one coaching you or giving you tasks. You need to learn the source code by yourself. This becomes harder and harder as the project complexity increases. Read the API, start to hack around, send patches. If those patches are liked a lot by Trac core developers, and if you maintain those features actively, you'll have a chance that they get into a release. Just have a look in the roadmap which topics are planned for the next release. If you active and good enough, and this needs a lot of spare time, you can get a developer account. CU, F@lk ---- R&D Software Baumer Optronic GmbH www.baumer.com Geschäftsführer: Dr. Albert Schmidt· Dr. Oliver Vietze Sitz der Gesellschaft: Radeberg Amtsgericht Dresden: HRB 15379 Ust. ID: DE 189714583 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
