Downtime 2011-04-06/07

The server that hosts trac-hacks.org along with the websites of the MadWiFi project has been suffering from a kind of hardware malfunction. It became unresponsive for short timespan first, then worked for several hours without any signs of problems. Things became pretty borked during this night, then at 04:22 UTC+2 the server failed. Power cycling plus a little prayer :-) helped to finally fix it at 07:00 UTC+2.

NewsFlash macro installed

As requested in #8521, the NewsFlashMacro has now been installed on trac-hacks.org. Feel free to make use of it in wiki pages where appropriate.

About the recent downtime (2010-09-24 and 25)

You certainly have noticed that trac-hacks.org was down for more than 24 hours. I apologize for any inconvenience caused by this incident. Here is what happened:

trac-hacks.org is hosted as a virtual server (based on linux-vserver) on the physical server of the MadWifi project. That server suffered from an issue that caused the host server to more or less hang. Our monitoring notified me of the problems by SMS. At that time I was on a holiday trip without internet access, so I asked my "remote hands" to reboot the server. That indeed helped to fix the original issue and the monitoring reported the server to be up and running again. Unfortunately the trac-hacks.org vserver encountered an issue during startup, preventing it from coming up normally, which remained unnoticed by the monitoring - and me. I only noticed it when I came online this evening after returning home. (...)

Downtime on 2009-06-04 [updated]

trac-hacks.org will be down for some hours tomorrow, beginning at about 2009-06-04 06:00am UTC+2 (see here for your local time). It will be moved to another, more powerful server. Yes, unless anything unforseeable happens this should be the last move required for t-h.o for some time. :-) (...)

Welcome to Trac Hacks

The purpose of TracHacks is to provide free Subversion hosting for community created Trac hacks.

TracHacks uses the excellent TagsPlugin, which adds basic categorisation to Trac. All hacks are tagged with one or more of the available tags.

How to Contribute

I've tried to make this as simple as possible:

  1. Register a user name then login (requires cookies).
  2. Fill out the NewHack form.
  3. Verify all the details for your new page are correct.
  4. Commit your code to the provided Subversion URL
    (alternatively you can simply attach your hack to your Wiki page, ala MacroBazaar, but remember that you can't delete or replace attachments)
  5. Have a look at TracHackDevelopment.
  6. Consider subscribing to the trac-hacks mailing list.

The TracHacks page contains more information, contact details, bug reports, enhancements, suggestions, etc.

I host my own hack elsewhere

Feel free to create a stub page here with a short description and links to your own hack. Please stick to the page naming convention, by appending the hack type (eg. GanttPlugin)

eg. The DoStuff macro would become the page DoStuffMacro.

Once you have created your page, tag it with the hack type and it will appear on the front page. Tag it with your TracHacks user id if you want it to show up on your user page.

How to Adopt Unmaintained Hacks

See AdoptingHacks.

How do I install these things?

Refer to the Trac plugin documentation and the MacroBazaar for details on how to build and install plugins and macros, respectively. For other types please refer to the page of the hack you are installing for instructions.

Request-a-Hack

Have a look at the RequestaHack page for features that people request.

Hacks

Show hacks for releases: 0.8 0.9 0.10 0.11 0.12 1.0 anyrelease
Integrating Trac with 3rd party applications

Macros

Macros are simple enhancements to Trac's Wiki engine. Examples include SubWiki, TOC, FootNote, etc.

Patches

Modifications to the Trac source in the form of patches. This can include simple changes to Clear Silver templates, patches to the Python code,etc.

Plugins

As part of the move to a component architecture, Trac 0.9 is now extensible via plugins. Plugins can be used to add functionality to Trac that was not previously possible without extensive modification to the source. This could include anything from extended milestone facilities, multi-project functionality, integration of automated build systems, other link types, to simple macros.

Refer to the Trac documentation for installation instructions and more information.

Scripts

Scripts that enhance the functionality of Trac. This could include things like wrappers around creation of Subversion and Trac projects, post-commit hooks, etc.

Themes

Themes are modifications to the visual layout and style of Trac. They can be anything from just CSS changes, to full templates with additional images and styles.

Translations

Translations of Trac into other languages.

Ticket Workflows

Trac 0.11 introduces customisable Workflows. Here are some you might find useful.

Feedback and Suggestions

Please consider subscribing to the th-users mailing list.

The list is meant for discussion about trac-hacks.org, i.e. the services that are provided here for the Trac community. Use it to suggest new features, discuss ways to improve the website, report issues that you come across, stuff like this. Any feedback is highly appreciated.

Please note however that th-users is not meant for support requests for any of the plugins provided on trac-hacks.org by their authors. These should still be directed to the trac-users mailing list instead.

Miscellany

We have defined some shortcuts for commonly used links, such as download:hackname, google:search, trac:wikipage, trac-changeset:changeset and trac-ticket:ticket. See InterMapTxt for a complete list.

Registered users of TracHacks.

Hacks for Trac 0.8, 0.9 and 0.10.

Example hacks.

Adhering to the principle that one should eat one's own dog food, the following hacks are used on TracHacks:
AccountManagerPlugin, AcronymsPlugin, AutoWikifyPlugin, ChangeLogMacro, EmailProcessorMacro, FootNoteMacro, IncludeMacro, IniAdminPlugin, NewHackMacro, NewsFlashMacro, PollMacro, RefMacro, SpamFilterPlugin, SvnAuthzAdminPlugin, TagsPlugin, TicketChangePlugin, TicketDeletePlugin, TocMacro, TracBlogPlugin, TracHacksPlugin, TracPygmentsPlugin, TracRedirect, WebAdminPlugin and XmlRpcPlugin.

Tag Cloud

The tag cloud is a visual representation of tag frequency, similar to a histogram.

I'm linking to the tag index to reduce system load.