Christian Boos

I'm part of the TracTeam since the 14^th of March 2005.

• Trac Project: cboos
• IrcChannel: cboos
• email: < cboos-at-neuf-dot-fr >

Contributions to Trac

Tickets I've completed, tickets that are still opened.

Past Proposals (now in Trac):

• TicketTypes (integrated in 0.9) related tickets
• TracDiff (integrated in 0.10) related tickets
• TracMercurial (plugin for Mercurial)
• InterTrac and InterWiki (integrated in 0.10) related tickets
• PageTemplates (integrated in 0.11)
• VcRefactoring/BrowserQuickjump (integrated in 0.11)

Other Alternative Proposals:

• FlexibleWikiPageNames, TicketAliases
• TracCrossReferences and BackLinks (work in progress) related tickets
• TracObjectModelProposal (brainstorming in progress) related tickets
  • GenericTrac, TracDev/JournalingProposal, TracDev/Proposals/DataModel
• TighterSubversionIntegration, or more generally, storing object changes in a VersioningSystemBackend related tickets
• TracDev/Proposals/WikiParserFormatterSplit
• FieldRefactoring, SearchRefactoring
• MultipleRepositorySupport
• TracDev/Proposals/AdvancedWikiOperations, WikiRename
• VcRefactoring/Controller

I also worked a bit on the DatabaseBackend refactoring and plan to add support for Oracle one day (#1874).

Besides InterTrac, I'd like to expand the support for multiple projects:

• TracMultipleProjects/MultipleEnvironments
• TracMultipleProjects/SingleEnvironment

My main development environment is TracStandalone on Windows using PySqlite.

Next Steps

• finalize WikiContext (ResourceDescriptor / RenderingContext split)
• finalize TimelineRefactoring (timeline entries rendering adapters)
• first stage of FieldRefactoring (for tickets)
• 0.11 - it's out!
• polishing 0.11 in 0.11.1, 0.11.2
• see also TracDev/ToDo

For the more ambitious (and controversial) changes, a fork of Trac is planned.
Here's a rough roadmap:

• VcRefactoring (improved cache, multi-repository support)
• GenericTrac / TracObjectModelProposal
  • second stage of FieldRefactoring
  • multi-project support
  • generalized change notifications
• VcRefactoring (commenting, graph based revision log)
• TracCrossReferences (simplified - only implicit cross-references)
• WikiEngine refactoring
• AdvancedSearch
• Make sure all of the above works perfectly ;-)
• 1.0
• Oracle support
• VC Storage backend

See also TracDev/ToDo for the more immediate tasks.

Misc.

Topics I'm interested in (beyond Trac, but quite close as you can see):

• Source Code Management (Subversion, SVK, Hg)
• Software Construction (GNU make)
• Software Documentation
• Continuous Integration
• Collaborative Groupware (wikis)
• Computer Languages (Ruby, C++, O'Caml, Bash and ... Python)