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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)

A Touch of Style


Before we start editing the content in our wiki we should take some time to familiarize ourselves with the basics of the markup used by Trac. Since each Trac environment we create includes a copy of the Trac documentation in the wiki, this and other information is easy to find. Once we have logged back in, we need to click on the WikiFormatting link (or enter http://servername/projects/sandbox/wiki/WikiFormatting in the address bar of our browser).

The page describes the various ways in which we can format the text on our wiki pages, and contains both the markup and examples of how the text will be displayed. There is little need to repeat the whole of the page here, but we can have a look at some of the basic syntax before we move on.

Note

Need to know basis

Instead of trying to absorb everything in one go, we will only look at the specific Trac markup when it is relevant to what we are discussing.

Formatting Text

The most commonly used text styles are bold, italics, and...