Jaervosz' burrow

Coming Underground

2008-06-17 19:27, by jaervosz, Categories: General, Gentoo, Universe/English, Opensource

I've been using Trac for a couple of my own pet projects, but I've started to wonder wether there were better alternatives. Years ago I migrated my own internal wiki to the Trac Wiki. And it's been hosting all my internal docs ever since.

On top of that I've used the SVN integration for a couple of my pet projects. This worked out really nice for some time. But after some time I started to get tired of the wiki and it's strange behaviour when some odd character is entered on some wiki page and it refuses to display and instead just throws some Python errors. This is the point were it's usability fails and some people just give up (I convinced other people to use Trac in the meantime).

Instead I've been looking for alternatives and it seems like Redmine could suit my needs for a simple project website with a simple wiki and a SVN frontend. On top of that I might actually get a ticket system that is useful.

Strangely enough my search have found zero ebuilds for Redmine so I haven't really tried out my own install yet as I'm too lazy:)

If anyone have a decent ebuild or recommendations for alternatives I'd be glad to hear.

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Comment from: Donnie Berkholz [Visitor]

· http://dberkholz.wordpress.com

Redmine's running on http://soc.gentooexperimental.org/ so ask bonsai.

2008-06-17 @ 20:48

Comment from: orzel [Visitor]

· http://labs.freehackers.org

I've been looking at all those tools for years, and i have never found trac convincing enough. Though redmine definitely cought my attention, so much that i've now switched to this tool. Indeed, it's not in gentoo, but i've installed my own one. Gentoo && redmine rocks.
greatings.

2008-06-17 @ 21:51

Comment from: Cheba [Visitor]

· http://pointlessone.org/

I'm wondering if there's any Rails app in portage.

2008-06-18 @ 00:07

Comment from: bob [Visitor]

The thing is, trac is well known and will be the most used one until it really gets unsupported and annoying, or another gets 200 or 300% better.

So, for the benefit of all it might be better to fix trac's quirks.
I don't use it myself since I dev the whole custom stuff usually, but in python encodings are a little pain, not easy to get right (thats why you get those errors)

They're however very fixable project wide and you never get any problem anymore.
Maybe I should just look at the code since everyone's so lazy! =O

2008-06-18 @ 11:47

Comment from: Eric Davis [Visitor]

· http://theadmin.org/

I've used trac for a few years but a year ago I moved to Redmine. It's great for me because it's Ruby (I'm a Rails hacker) and it hosts multiple projects in one install. Last I checked, the standard Trac is one project per instance though there are hacks to work around that.

I haven't run Gentoo in a long time but I bet it would be easy to setup Redmine from scratch on it. I used Debian to install the Ruby libraries and then just checked out the Subversion copy for my site. I would highly recommend running the Subversion copy anyways, there's a lot of development between releases and Subversion makes it really easy to stay up to date.

If you need nay help, feel free to ask me. The docs on the Wiki are pretty good but they don't cover all the different conditions.

2008-06-18 @ 19:01

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