One of the reasons Trac works so well for managing software development is because it is browser based. Apart from our development environment, the browser, along with our email client, are the next most likely applications we are going to have installed and running on our computer. If access to our Trac environment is only a click away, it stands to reason that we are more likely to use it.
In Chapter 2 we referred to Trac as a "wiki on steroids" because of the way the developers have integrated the typical features of a wiki throughout the whole product. However, for all the extra features and integration, at its heart Trac is basically just a wiki and this is the main reason why it so useful in helping smooth the documentation process. If we again recall Chapter 2, we described a wiki:
Let's expand on that slightly. As well as letting us view content—like a normal website—a wiki...