Sorry for the late reply â I haven't checked my email in a while â but I'm replying anyway because I've some strong feelings on this issue. In short, Trac sucks. My issues with it are as follows: 1. The design sucks. 2. There's no AJAX. Now, I know a lot of people on this list hate Web 2.0, but I really think its irrational. Especially over Tor, reloading pages as many times as Trac makes you do is time consuming and cumbersome. Of course, I'm not advocating making it *require* JavaScript, but it would certainly be a nice feature. 3. An unreasonable number of pages must be navigated through in order to perform simple functions. The difficult of doing this prevents people from finding bugs, and therefore discourages contribution. 4. There are too many options. There are oodles of options that must be fiddled with every single time a ticket is created, and if one makes a mistake, it's not possible to go back and edit the ticket. 5. Searching for tickets is a confusing and somewhat difficult task. In order to search for one's own tickets, for example, one must navigate a menu with FORTY choices with unclear labels. 6. Searching in general doesn't work very well. Whatever algorithm Trac uses for search is awful. 7. Trac sends email about your own modifications, and about a lot of things people probably don't want email about (i.e. every comment on a ticket). A significantly improved method would be to offer notifications on the website itself. 8. Trac does not integrate with Git. It should allow you to reference commits from tickets, and reference tickets from commit messages (viewed in the web interface). Being able to close tickets from commit messages would also be useful. 9. HTTP Basic authentication could be confusing for some users. A cookies-based system would probably be easier, and allow for persistent logins (which most people consider a good thing). 10. "Points" are annoying. I'm not personally a fan of 'agile development', and I really don't want to get notifications about it. Again, finer-grained control over notifications would probably solve this. Because of these reasons, I think Trac actually discourages contribution. It's *much* easier to report a bug, say, on GitHub than on Trac, and it's much easier to get updates about progress on it; both of which are things that are important to the average person reviewing a bug. ~ Kat
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