Trac
https://docs.rc.uab.edu/
Please use the new documentation url https://docs.rc.uab.edu/ for all Research Computing documentation needs.
As a result of this move, we have deprecated use of this wiki for documentation. We are providing read-only access to the content to facilitate migration of bookmarks and to serve as an historical record. All content updates should be made at the new documentation site. The original wiki will not receive further updates.
Thank you,
The Research Computing Team
Introduction
Trac is an open source, web-based project management and bug-tracking tool (source:Wikipedia). Trac is built on python and provides a web interface to version control systems such as Subversion, Git, Mercurial etc. With its wiki markup capability, Trac serves as a great annotation tool for a project's source code.
End Users
For end users interested in using Trac as a wiki, ticket/bug reporting tool send an email to...
Coming soon, a self servicing web interface for provisioning a trac instance(TBD, a landing page...)
Developers
For developers, interested in customizing Trac (theme, plugins etc), setting up a development environment in one's own space without much fuss and moving parts, is of primary concern. This brings down to two essential components for developing for Trac,
NOTE: Though there may be any number of ways to set up an AMP stack, recommended here is one easy way which has cross-platform capability ie., XAMPP developed by Apache Friends.