What are some recommended plugins for Trac? [closed]

Answer 1

I would recommend against Bitten for CI (Continuous Integration) (see Martin Fowler on the subject) although I am using it.

The task force behind Bitten doesn't seem strong enough to process the remaining tasks. Simply look at the age and the number of posts in Bitten tickets

Answer 2

Lots of Trac plugins look promising. Unfortunately only a handful really delivers and even then some of them are not properly supported or maintained. They also tend to conflict sometimes.

I will not recommend anything for project management specifically but these are the ones which made our live so much easier:

• TagsPlugin - the most useful one, adds tags support
• BreadCrumbsNav - show previously visited pages, saves lots of time
• ShowPath - show the breadcrumbs path, useful if you have your pages named hierarchically
• CaseInsensitiveWiki - allows entering case-insensitive URLS
• Stratistics - show Wiki/SVN statistics
• WikiRename - allows page renaming (does not work well with the Tags)

0.10

• WebAdmin - pre-installed in 0.11 but before you need to get it separately

Answer 3

What plugins you will consider must-have depends heavily on your use case.

Must-have plugins if you need more power in creating advanced wiki pages:

• GraphvizPlugin
• WikiExtrasPlugin

Must-have plugins if you like IDE-style auto-completion and indentation features in the text editor:

• TextareaKeyBindingsPlugin
• WikiAutoCompletePlugin

Must-have plugins if you use many Mercurial repositories:

• MercurialPlugin
• HgDirManagerPlugin

Must-have plugins if you ...

• ... want to archive emails: MailArchivePlugin
• ... want to track time spent on tasks: TimeTrackingPlugin
• ... want to plan your week: WeekPlanPlugin
• ... want to drag cards between stacks: CardsPlugin
• ...

But if you don't have these use cases, you will not find the plugins valuable.

Answer 4

I really like the BatchModifyPlugin that makes it easy to change more than one ticket at the time.