Please comment on your use of trac

Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com> Wed, 03 February 2021 16:17 UTC

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Subject: Please comment on your use of trac
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We currently have instances of trac configured for each working group. 
Only some are being used.

If your group is using trac, are you using anything essentially 
trac-specific that you find important?

Would you be ok migrating (with help) to a different wiki system and a 
different issue tracking system?

The trac project itself is lagging with Python development - stable 
still only runs on Python 2.7 and while there appears to be work towards 
Python 3, it is not yet functional, and is not progressing quickly. We 
are working around it by encapsulating it in docker instances running 2.7.

I've had several people suggest we should stop supporting it, and I'd 
like to know if that would be a particular hardship for any group.

RjS