wiki:TracBacksPlugin

Version 17 (modified by Ryan J Ollos, 12 years ago) (diff)

Needs a license.

Backlinks for tickets in comment history

Description

Summary

Enables intra-Trac references between tickets. When a comment on ticket A references ticket B, a comment is made on ticket B letting you know that ticket A has referenced it.

See also: TicketBackLinksMacro

License: This plugin currently has no license. Ticket #9809 has been opened to try and contact the author.

More detail

TracBacksPlugin provides internal trackback functionality between tickets in a Trac instance.

Scenario: If developer A is working on ticket 1 and developer B is working on ticket 2 and writes some notes (on ticket 2) how it’s related to ticket 1, it automatically makes a (ticket-2)-to-(ticket 1) link that’s easy to follow to get more details. So far so good. However, developer A has no idea her ticket has just been discussed on ticket 2, and tinkers on blithely unaware of what is going on around her, because there is no reciprocal (ticket 1)-to-(ticket 2) link.

How can we automatically indicate that tickets are being discussed at other tickets? TracBacks. What this plugin does is simply to create that reciprocal (ticket 1)-to-(ticket 2) link so that anyone looking at ticket 1 can see it has been talked about on ticket 2 as well.

Bugs/Feature Requests

Existing bugs and feature requests for TracBacksPlugin are here. If you have any issues, create a new ticket.

Download and Source

Download the [download:tracbacksplugin zipped source], check out using Subversion, or browse the source with Trac.

Example

Note: This plugin will not retroactively create trackbacks for existing comments.

Adding the following comment in ticket A

Results in the following tracback in ticket B

Recent Changes

18131 by Cinc-th on 2021-04-01 17:28:12
TracBacksPlugin: fix for Trac 1.5. Bumped version to 0.3.0.
17657 by rjollos on 2020-01-11 08:11:46
TracBacks 0.2dev: Make compatible with Trac 1.4+

Fixes #13728.

17656 by rjollos on 2020-01-11 08:07:50
Conform to PEP8
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Author/Contributors

Author: mchua
Maintainer: rjollos
Contributors: tcoulter (original proposer), Doug Mayle, magicbronson, k0s

Originally written at The Open Planning Project.

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