Trac for Administrators

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This course is aimed at Project Managers, Bug and Issue Tracking Administrators, and System Administrators who need a technical understanding of Trac, its installation and its administration.

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Course programme

The structure, philosophy and capabilities of Trac

  • Overview of Trac and its key components
  • How Trac interacts with email and version control systems
  • Understanding how Trac interacts with its underlying database management system

Trac Installation

  • Software packages need to install Trac
    • Python
    • setuptools
    • Genshi
    • Clearsilver
    • SQLite and PySQLite, or
    • PostgreSQL and psycopg2, or
    • MySQl and MySQLdb
    • Subversion
    • cgi capable web server e.g. TracCgi, or
    • Apache with mod_wsgi, or
    • Apache with mod_python
    • various Python utilities

Trac Administration Commands

  • Command line level administration
  • Administration via the WebAdmin plugin
  • Using the admin commands
    • Creating and initialising new environments
    • Creating hot backup copies of an environment
    • Resynchronising with the repository
    • Working with permission- adding and removing users and controlling user privileges
    • Manipulating wiki pages
    • Manipulating tickets, their priorities and severities
    • Working with project milestones
    • Working with ticket resolutions
    • Working with components
    • Combining commands into working scripts

Trac Permissions

  • Repository browser permissions
  • Ticket system permissions
  • Roadmap permissions
  • Reports permissions
  • Wiki system permissions
  • Granting and revoking permissions
  • Permission groups

Customisation, logging and interfacing

  • Understanding the Trac configuration file
  • Customising the Trac interface
  • Installing and managing Trac plugin extensions
  • Setting up and managing email notification
  • Logging and its effective uses

Workflow

  • Overview of Workflow concepts
  • Understanding the Trac Workflow State Machine model
  • Workflow customisation
  • Adding testing with Workflow
  • Adding workflow states to Milestone Progress Bars
  • Introduction to more advanced ticket workflow plugins

Putting it all together - Management Issues and Scenarios

  • Working out a team groupworking and co-ordination strategy
  • Communicating via email
  • Combining Trac with quality control and testing
  • Combining Trac with lean and Six Sigma [optional module]
  • Structuring Trac projects
  • Using Trac as a project administration tool

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