After a long discussion internally of how to proceed we have decided to use Trac for the time being. For those not aware of what Trac does, it is a software that allows you to manage software projects. It does this using subversion, a wiki and ticketing system.
We decided to test Trac on a small scale and purchased a test account from hosted-projects.com to see how it will work in the end and if Trac will work for our needs. Based off this test we are now working on building our own Trac server. We will update you in the blog when it is 100% online and ready to go.
We will most likely be offering Trac hosting either as a free service or paid as well based on this test. It is a very niche market but I think as time goes on more and more developers will be designing using Subversion.
On a side note if you have ever installed Trac the install instructions really need to be reworded so that it makes sense. The install instructions are horrible on the Trac site.
Matt
May 30, 2007 7:53 pm
Sweet, thanks for the update!
Matt
May 30, 2007 9:40 pm
Nice, BlueFurCode.Com! I thought I would check to see if you registered it, and you did. :P
blogadmin
May 30, 2007 9:45 pm
you weren’t suppose to say it yet ;)
Matt
May 30, 2007 9:52 pm
Opps… Everyone pretend they didn’t see that. :P Although, you might as well start the traffic stream early. :P I mean, why not, you’ll have a more successful launch. :P So, everyone stop pretending they didn’t see that. ;) Or, whatever. :P
Scott Morrison
June 5, 2007 2:56 pm
Here is another vote in favour of Trac and svn. I would pay an extra amount monthly for private secure access… but it would also be nice to see a free trac service for open source projects.
And trac is not as niche as you may think — it is not just for programmers but a lot of web developers use it. If trac was tied into our public www folders so that we could commit to trac from our development machines and then use a control panel on blue fur to update/check out to the latest commit for webpages, that would be absolutely stellar.
Matt
June 5, 2007 7:32 pm
For the second purpose, you wouldn’t even need Trac. All you would need is SVN installed on the server. Then you could just “svn up” from a branch called “stable”, or something, in your SVN Repository.