What are some recommended plugins for Trac? [closed]

Question

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)?

Answer 1

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 2

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/

Answer 3

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

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

Below are good-to-have:

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

Answer 4

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