Hey all, I was googling around yesterday to see if anyone else was working on a trac fork and discovered bloodhound. I've always found it frustrating that the out-of-box experience with trac sucks. To get trac up to where other issue management systems are you need to do a fair bit of configuration and play around with some plugins. Not to mention the UI looks like it came from the 90s, so most newer-generation folks are immediately put off by it. If you grade solely on the out-of-box experience, other systems like JIRA win against trac. This is unfortunate because trac's extensibility and simplicity (in my opinion anyways) make it a better long-term choice for issue management.
Anyways I'm glad others are actively rethinking these aspects of trac. Before I did my googling yesterday I was playing around with a bootstrap reskin for trac (hacking directly on the genshi templates), so I'm especially delighted that you've chosen bootstrap. I haven't caught up on all of the email archive yet, but I have a few thoughts I wanted to share, so I apologize in advance if these were already covered. * bootstrap +1 * Can email2trac be bundled out-of-box? https://subtrac.sara.nl/oss/email2trac * Can the breadcrumbs plugin be bundled out-of-box? http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/BreadCrumbsNavPlugin * I would love it if one of the child / master ticket plugins was included out of box, but rendered in the UI in a clean way http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/ChildTicketsPlugin * Review of historical ticket data is an essential part of our project management method. We have scripts that mine trac for historical data and plot it using the google charts API. Tickets are plotted by state over time, ticket "velocity" (the rates at which they move through states), etc. It would be great if this was just part of trac and available as a wiki macro. * I like the dashboard/activity views that have been shared but I'm not clear if these are supposed to be new pages, or new functionality available as wiki macros? I make a lot of dashboards using trac and wiki macro queries, it would be nice if these dashboards you're making were customizable using the same mechanism... can they just be wiki pages themselves? * What's the multiple project strategy? We use trac to host multiple projects on the same server just using apache redirect rules and the intertrac plugin. It works very well, but is not easy to setup/maintain. Would be nice if this was just done for you. -robert
