What are some recommended plugins for Trac? [closed]

In particular, I need a more full fledged version of Trac to support robust project management, and task tracking. I went through the plugins and literally found over 50 that looked promising.

My question is to the admins/users of Trac: which ones are indespensible for making Trac feature complete and which ones should be avoided (e.g. stability issues)?

Ilya Kochetov

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

My Favorites:

General:

Better editor WYSIWYG: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TracWysiwygPlugin
TicketCalendar Macro: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/WikiTicketCalendarMacro
AccountManager: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/AccountManagerPlugin

Scrum - Agilo: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/AgiloForScrumPlugin

This is the place to watch http://trac-hacks.org/

Besides those already mentioned here, I also found the following necessary:

Announcer - very flexible notification scheme
AutocompleteUsers - handy while typing (existent) user name
AutoLinks - automatically make words not conforming to wiki naming rule but matches existent page name a link
CustomFieldAdmin - make manage custom fields easier
Redirect - handy if you constantly need to make short-hand name wiki pages (like HTML redirects to HyperText .....)
TicketDelete - make deleting, if at all needed, easier
WikiRename - must-have for wiki refactoring

Below are good-to-have:

S5 - directly render wiki pages as slideshow in S5 format, could be really useful for using Trac as the source for presentation
FullBlog - add blogging support to Trac
Vote - cool add-on feature for big team
TracWikiToPdf - transform wiki page to pdf dynamically (however the effect might be all that satisfying)
TimingAndEstimation - neat for tracking time and/or estimation

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

MasterTicketsPlugin is quite useful for ticket dependncies.

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

I don't admin our Trac, and I don't know all the plugins we use. But I co-developed a GUI we use to navigate the tickets and to track time spent on specific ones. It uses the xmlrpc plugin to query ticket information and to write some information back. Extending Trac is really easy this way.

my must-have list of plugins:

some may be part of trac since 0.12

and a script:

https://subtrac.sara.nl/oss/email2trac

Apache Bloodhound is a collection of plugins bundled with Trac. It includes some of the individual plugins suggested in earlier answers, like the AccountManagerPlugin.

The major plugins developed as part of Bloodhound are a very robust Multi Product implementation, full text search (based on Whoosh) with better navigation. Ticket relations have also just been added.

Bloodhound keeps integrating newly released trac versions quickly, and all plugins interoperate as expected because they're purposefully bundled. It's also still compatible with most trac-hacks.

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:

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

Must-have plugins if you use many Mercurial repositories:

Must-have plugins if you ...