Re: Please comment on your use of trac

Brian Rosen <br@brianrosen.net> Wed, 03 February 2021 16:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: Please comment on your use of trac
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2021 11:42:28 -0500
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To: Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca>
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Mostly using Github for issue tracking these days.  Wouldn’t miss trac.

> On Feb 3, 2021, at 11:33 AM, Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 3 Feb 2021, Robert Sparks wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> trans is using it, but we would be fine with a migration to something
> else (and hope to be done and close before this work would happen).
> 
> Paul