Announcing Cart

Andrew Bennetts andrew at canonical.com
Wed Oct 3 14:07:47 BST 2007


Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> >> - no wiki functionality (unless someone can explain why it belongs there)
> > 
> > I found wiki is really powerful part of Trac. E.g. in my company we
> > keep [almost] all project documentation in wiki. It's very useful.
> 
> Sure, but does it work better or worse than Moin?  I've never seen big
> benefits from the fact that the wiki's part of the same package as the
> bug tracker and source viewer.

It works better, at least as far as user experience goes.  Bug descriptions and
comments can use the same WikiFormatting as wiki pages.  And vice versa: so for
instance wiki pages can link to bugs the exact same way that bug comments can
(with #1234 or ticket:1234).  And of course the wiki shares its user database
with the bug tracker.  And the wiki can use the exact same style sheet/theme as
the bug tracker with no extra effort.

I suppose in principle you could write Moin plugins to provide similar
integration, but with Trac people get that and probably lots of other little
details like that taken care of out-of-the-box.  The convenience to
adminstrators and consistency for users shouldn't be underestimated.

Of course, I've never actually set up a Trac instance myself (although I am a
fairly frequent user of the instance at http://twistedmatrix.com/), so perhaps
in practice it's all much more horrible than I've imagined.  But the idea makes
sense to me.

-Andrew.



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