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Version 150 (modified by Ryan J Ollos, 11 years ago) (diff)

Moved content to blog.

Registered usernames can no longer be used by an anonymous author

Until now a registered user has been able to make a change without authenticating, by entering their username in the author field. Any user could make a comment using a registered username. While this hasn't been a significant problem up until now, it was possible that a user could make changes with malicious intent, disguising themselves as a registered user. The issue was discussed in #11622 and changes have been deployed to trac-hacks.org.

Please note that you are still free to make a comment or create a ticket using a username or email that has not been registered at trac-hacks.org. If you have any questions or concerns please leave a comment below.

Elevated permissions

The permission schema has been modified to give users additional permissions:

  1. Anonymous users can modify ticket properties (TICKET_CHGPROP).
  2. Authenticated users can delete their own attachments.
  3. Authenticated users can modify the description of tickets they report.
  4. Project maintainers can modify the ticket description, cc list and edit comments by others, for tickets associated with their projects.
  5. Project maintainers can delete attachments on their project wiki page and for tickets associated with their projects.

Trac Hacks upgraded to Trac 1.2

The site is now running Trac 1.2. Trac 1.2 is the latest stable release at the time of this writing, and we'll aim to keep trac-hacks.org on the latest release of Trac going forward.

There was a small amount of downtime related to the upgrade which will be avoided in the future through improved configuration management.

[RESOLVED] Usernames with special characters can't login

Due to a regression in Trac 1.0.7, attempts to login to the site with a username containing special characters such as . or - will result in an error. The issue is captured in trac:#12129 and should be resolved with a new Trac release this week.

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

integration
macro

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

patch

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

plugin

Refer to the Trac documentation for installation instructions.

script

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

theme

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.

workflow

The TracWorkflow is customizable.

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.