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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)

Viewing Tickets


Although we have already seen what a ticket looks like when we view it directly, we are yet to explore the ticket reporting capabilities of Trac. If we click the View Tickets link in Trac's main menu, we will be taken to the list of default reports. Clicking on any one of these reports will provide us with the summary information of each ticket that matches the report's filter.

The list of default reports should suffice for most requirements, but if they do not we have a custom query builder available so we can write our own. This can be found just under the main Trac menu when viewing reports. We can use this builder to create complex queries and view the results on the fly.

At the moment Trac doesn't support saving custom queries, but it does come close. We can link to queries in two ways from anywhere in Trac that supports wiki formatting (even other tickets!).

Linked Queries

These use the same formatting as normal links within a wiki, but this time they start with the...