Trac vs. Redmine [closed]

Answer 1

I don't have experience with either Trac, or Redmine, we use Gemini, but you can find a comparison of project management tools here.

Hope this helps, Dave

Answer 2

At BitNami we provide free installers and VMs for Trac and Redmine. Redmine is definitely much more popular but Trac is getting more popular, in particular as 1.0 version is around the corner. Since you mentioned Git or DVCS support, you may also be interested in Gitorious or Gitlab

Answer 3

Redmine has all that out of the box in a generally very good quality.

However the Installation of Redmine is a different issue. Redmine has a lot of dependencies and many of those dependencies have multiple versions which are not compatible with each other. I was unable to install the most recent redmine manually so far.

What worked fine however was the redmine package provided by Debian Squeeze. It's an older version (1.0.1-2) but has everything you need. I know that openSUSE and Ubuntu also provide redmine packages. (both version 1.1.3, they weren't able to get an recent version installed either, huh?)

Answer 4

We have been using Redmine for some time. It may have been difficult to install in the past (I didn't think so) but Ubuntu now includes it so installing is a simple one liner "apt-get install red mine". Then you just turn on the passenger module "a2enmod passenger" and finally enable the redmine site.

Answer 5

I'm working very much with redmine, and I love it!

1. svn and/or dcvs (Git) support

   got it both. if you add the ticket number to the commit message, the commit will appear very elegant in the ticket, this is one of my favorite features as developer :)

2. document management

   got it too, but just very minimalism. You can upload files to tickets and projects (seperately) but you can't search for them (i.e.)

3. ticketing, bug tracking, wiki

   yes, yes and... yes :) I like the syntax of writing tickets or other text contents, kind of similar with the syntax at stackoverflow.com.

4. multiple project support

   of cause you can create projects, sub-projects, sub-sub-projects.... with different access rights if necessary. You can also do this cascading with tickets.

5. installation and plugins

   I have never installed a redmine instance, and I have no experience with ruby. I'm just a redmine user - but I know that it is possible to write own extensions (my company has written one for own purposes, to extend the tracking of time)

Conclusion: I will always use Redmine when I need a ticket system!

Update: Sometimes I am also using the issue integration of code hosters like bitbucket or github. Redmine is the largest solution I've used. Trello is also an alternative, which I like to use to handle customer tasks (you can create teams), when not much people are involved and the project is not that big.

Answer 6

I use Redmine and ... i like it ;)

• svn and git works fine, it has more repos implemented (Darcs, Mercurial, Cvs, Bazaar, Filesystem ??? ), but haven't tried using them
• about installation - in my case auto installator on my hosting, so i can't say a thing, you should be able to find many tutorials
• ticketing / bug tracking - i think, for both RM and Trac it is main functionality, so too much to write about ;) you can configure roles, link users or groups with project, specifying role for each you can specify your own issue (ticket) type, for eg. bug, new idea, issue priorities you have gantt chart (you can specify deadline for each issue), you can link every ticket with version of your project ... many, many features here
• multiple project support - you can have multiple projects linked with one ( i mean the same ) or more repos
• document management / wiki / internal blog - havent used this feature, but yes, RM has something for doc management and wiki module
• 100's of plugin ... i have none and still there are too many config options :P