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We’re already using 37 signals Basecamp for project management. It works well for collaborative work and management of distributed teams but is tedious when used as a feature tracker.

Today we discussed the need for a bug/issue tracker. In the past, we’ve considered RT since it integrates with our existing email flow. But frankly, RT is a PITA to configure.

I know that some people are hot and heavy on Mantis. I’m not. For one, I don’t like it’s name or it’s logo.

Here’s how I installed Trac:

// install Python cd ~/src wget http://python.org/ftp/python/2.5.2/Python-2.5.2.tgz cd ../build tar xzf ../src/Python* cd Python* ./configure; make ; sudo make install


// Install easy_install.py

cd ~/src

wget http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py

sudo ./ez_setup.py
// Install Trac

sudo easy_install Trac==0.11rc2
// Install mod_wsgi

cd ~/src

wget http://modwsgi.googlecode.com/files/mod_wsgi-2.0.tar.gz

tar xzf mod_wsgi*

cd mod_wsgi*

./configure

make

sudo make install
// Set up Trac environment

trac-admin /usr/local/wormbase/trac

... // follow the configuration prompts
// Test it

tracd --port 9001 /usr/local/wormbase/trac

http://localhost:9001/
// Configure wsgi

import os
os.environ['TRAC_ENV'] = '/usr/local/wormbase/trac'

os.environ['PYTHON_EGG_CACHE'] = '/usr/local/wormbase/trac/eggs'
import trac.web.main

application = trac.web.main.dispatch_request
// Configure apache
// apache conf

LoadModule wsgi_module        libexec/mod_wsgi.so

AddModule mod_wsgi.c
// wormbase/conf/httpd.conf

WSGIScriptAlias /trac /usr/local/wormbase/cgi-perl/misc/trac.wsgi


  WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}

  Order deny,allow

  Allow from all





  AuthType Basic

  AuthName "WormBase Trac"

  AuthUserFile /usr/local/wormbase/trac/.htpasswd

  Require valid-user

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