While all the parts of our solution are considered equally important, the truth is that without Trac this solution, and this book, would not exist!
Trac is an open-source project created and directed by the developers at Edgewall Software (http://www.edgewall.org). They are a community of software developers who collaborate on a number of open-source projects, all of which share the common theme of being based on the Python programming language (http://www.python.org/). Trac won the UK Linux & Open Source Award for Best Linux OSS Developer Tool in 2006.
Perhaps the best way to describe Trac is as a "wiki on steroids"—the developers themselves describe it as an "enhanced wiki and issue tracking system".
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What on earth is a wiki?
A wiki, originally referred to as a WikiWikiWeb, is a web application that allows visitors to create and modify its content. The most famous example of a wiki in action is Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org), which is a collaboratively edited encyclopedia.
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