I'm evaluating Trac vs. Fossil for use within our small engineering department (2 CEs, 2 EEs, 2 MEs). I have some experience with Trac and none at all with Fossil (I've been using SVN + Bugzilla for way too long). We need version control, bug tracking and documentation tools, and getting them rolled into a single integrated system is highly desired, even if compromises must be made. I have both systems running in parallel, and the other engineers are playing with each as time permits.
So far, Fossil is winning quite handily on all the key technical features and issues we care about. But usability issues, especially for non-software folks, provide some stumbling blocks. One feature many enjoy is the side-by-side wiki editing capability of Trac (http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracWiki), especially those who have little or no experience with wiki markup or HTML, or folks like me who have used way too many wiki markup systems and keeps getting them confused. The side-by-side approach provides a very nice, possibly ideal, compromise between full (and heavy) WYSIWYG editing vs. the tedious edit/preview cycle. Is side-by-side wiki editing available in Fossil? Ideally, this mode would be available wherever any kind of markup is allowed to be entered, such as within tickets. FWIW, while searching for other implementations of similar capabilities I stumbled across Wiky (http://goessner.net/articles/wiky/), which could permit such a feature to be implemented using only client-side code. (Not that that's an issue for Fossil, where the entire local UI server is "client side"!) TIA, -BobC
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