Trac is an open source, minimalist and web-based project management and bug-tracking tool, inspired by CVSTrac. It is developed and maintained by Edgewall Software. Trac should not be confused with Track+, another web-based and open-source project-management tool. Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... Edgewall Software is a software company dedicated to open source software development. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... An operating system (OS) is a computer program that manages the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... A cross-platform (or platform independent) programming language, software application or hardware device works on more than one system platform (e. ... Project management software is a term covering many types of software, including scheduling, resource allocation, collaboration software, communication and documentation systems, which are used to deal with the complexity of large projects. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... The BSD daemon BSD licenses represent a family of permissive free software licenses. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Project management is the discipline of organizing and managing resources in such a way that these resources deliver all the work required to complete a project within defined scope, time, and cost constraints. ... A bugtracker is an issue tracking system that is designed especially to manage problems (software bugs) with computer programs. ... Edgewall Software is a software company dedicated to open source software development. ... Track+ is a general-purpose project-management tool. ...

Trac allows hyperlinking information between a computer bug database, revision control and wiki content. It also serves as a sophisticated web interface to the subversion version control system. In the current version, the web front end presentation of Trac is handled by the ClearSilver template system. Newer versions, starting with 0.11, will use an in-house template system called Genshi, although compatibility with plugins using ClearSilver will remain for several versions.^[1] A hyperlink (often referred to as simply a link), is a reference or navigation element in a document to another section of the same document, another document, or a specified section of another document, that automatically brings the referred information to the user when the navigation element is selected by... A computer bug is an error, flaw, mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program that prevents it from working as intended, or produces an incorrect result. ... Revision control (also known as version control, source control or (source) code management (SCM)) is the management of multiple revisions of the same unit of information. ... Look up Wiki in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... WWWs historical logo designed by Robert Cailliau The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is a system of interlinked, hypertext documents that runs over the Internet. ... Subversion is an open source application for revision control. ... Revision control is an aspect of documentation control wherein changes to documents are identified by incrementing an associated number or letter code, termed the revision level, or simply revision. It has been a standard practice in the maintenance of engineering drawings for as long as the generation of such drawings... ClearSilver is an HTML template system similar to XSLT/XML written as a C-library that can be exported to Python, Perl, Java and Ruby via modules. ... Stub, for web template + template engine + standards (of plugs and languages) The basic process on the system: content (from database), and presentation specifications (from web template), producing (through the template engine) web pages. ...

Trac is written in the Python programming language. Until mid-2005, it was available under the GNU GPL; since version 0.9, it has been released under a modified BSD license [1]. Both are free software licenses. Python is a programming language created by Guido van Rossum in 1990. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely-used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... The BSD license is a permissive license and is one of the most widely used free software licenses. ... Free software is software which grants recipients the freedom to modify and redistribute the software. ...

Among the many users of Trac is NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which reports that it uses this tool to manage various deep space and near space projects. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an agency of the United States Government, responsible for that nations public space program. ... The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in La Cañada Flintridge, near Los Angeles, California, USA, builds and operates unmanned spacecraft for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). ...

Users of Trac

See also: Official Trac site's listing

• Adium (Adium's Trac)
• Avahi (Avahi's Trac)
• CakePHP (CakePHP's Trac)
• Dojo Toolkit (Dojo Toolkit Trac)
• Growl (Growl's Trac)
• Haskell (Haskell's Trac)
• lighttpd (lighttpd's Trac)
• MacPorts (MacPorts' wiki)
• MochiKit (MochiKit's Trac)
• Nevow (Nevow's Trac)
• rTorrent (rTorrent's Trac)
• Ruby on Rails (Ruby on Rails' Trac)
• WebKit (WebKit's Trac)
• WordPress (Wordpress's Trac)

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See also

Free software Portal

• Comparison of issue tracking systems

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References

1. ^ ClearSilver - The Trac Project. Edgewall Trac (2007-01-27). Retrieved on 2007-02-06.

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External links

• Trac Open Source Project
• Trac-Hacks has many plugins and patches.