[Adium-devl] The evils of Trac (was: Re: [Adium-feedback] Fwd: ContactUs - Adium X - Trac)

[Andrew Harvey]

I finish my final exams at the end of October. Between now and then,  
I could only work here and there, between study. From there, I've got  
nothing planned. The way I see it, we could have the base  
functionality of Trac with a bunch of the things listed here done in  
less than the time that it will take the Trac team to implement some  
of these tickets.

I haven't really looked at the Trac development since the (not dead  
yet, but still on hold) work I was doing on integrating Trac with  
IRC, and there were some pretty simple changes that would mean great  
improvements that had been sitting there for quite a time. Things  
might have changed since then, but this is what I saw.

I of course, couldn't do it on my own. I have a large chunk of it  
mapped out in my head already, and I know some BSD licensed projects  
I could grab some code from for some of the functionality we want  
(search, spam from typo, modified MarkDown from BlueCloth, etc). If  
anyone else is interested in helping, or if there are any web  
developers in the community who have some time... That would be great  
to know about.

In terms on working on Trac rather than creating a new solution, I'd  
tend to say it's a whole lot of work on a system which needs  
considerable improvement. Forking, with frequent merges may be our  
best bet in this case, simply because patches we produce may not fit  
with the Trac vision/paradigm, and they may not be merged/released  
for some time after submission.

Andrew


On 27/09/2006, at 5:10 AM, Christopher Forsythe wrote:

> What time frame do you think you could give us from start to  
> replacing trac? Could you make it so that it works for more than  
> just Adium (i.e. chatkit/colloquy/growl)
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> Chris
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