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Managing Software Development with Trac and Subversion

By : David J Murphy
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Managing Software Development with Trac and Subversion

By: David J Murphy

Overview of this book

<p><br />Trac is a minimalistic open-source enhanced wiki and bug/issue tracking system for software development projects, designed to help developers while staying out of the way and provides an interface to Subversion. Subversion is an open-source version control system that addresses many of the perceived deficiencies of CVS and can use WebDAV for network communications, and the Apache web server to provide repository-side network service.<br /><br />This book presents a simple set of processes and practices that allow you to manage these projects using open-source software without getting in the way by imposing as little as possible on established development practices and policies.<br /><br />This book looks at what is needed to manage software development projects, how web-based software project management system Trac and open-source revision control system Subversion meet these needs, and how to install, configure, and use them.</p> <p><a href="http://www.packtpub.com/article/managing-software-development-with-trac-and-subversion-table-of-contents"><br /></a></p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Trac


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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