Course VCT106
Trac Installation and Administration
Trac Installation and Administration
Duration: 2 Days
Short Summary
This course is aimed at Project Managers, Bug and Issue Tracking Administrators, and System Administrators need a technical understanding of Trac, its installation and its administration
Intended Audience
The course will be useful for
- System administrators needing to set up, administer and troubleshoot Trac
- Specialist Trac administrators involved in setting up and managing an extensive issue and bug ticketing framework
- technical managers who require and in depth understanding of Trac so as to take the fullest advantage of its capabilities
The course assumes a basic familiarity Subversion and Trac from a user's perspective, as well as a good understanding of system administration for the operating system on which Trac will be installed
Course Overview
The purpose of this course is to cover both the installation of Trac ( and the various subsystems it depends on as well as the technical structure of Trac.
- access control and user administration
- project administration
- co-ordination of project team members via email
- usage of Trac in a workflow, testing and quality control context
Key Skills
- Ability to install, upgrade and configure Trac
- Ability to administer Trac projects
- Logging, backup of Trac resources
- Understanding how to use Trac as a Project Management , Quality Control and Workflow Tool
Key Delivery
Instructor led in-house training with a great deal of hands-on practice.
Course Contents
The structure, philosophy and capabilities of Trac
- Overview of Trac and its key components
- How Trac interacts with email and version control systems
- Understanding how Trac interacts with its underlying database management systemb
Trac Installation
- software packages need to install Trac
- Python
- setuptools
- Genshi
- Clearsilver
- SQLite and PySQLite, or
- PostgreSQL and psycopg2, or
- MySQl and MySQLdb
- Subversion
- cgi capable web server e.g. TracCgi, or
- Apache with mod_wsgi, or
- Apache with mod_python
- various Python utilities
Trac Administration Commands
- Command line level administration
- Administration via the WebAdmin plugin
- Using the admin commands
- creating and initialising new environments
- creating hot backup copies of an environment
- resynchronising with the repository
- working with permission- adding and removing users and controlling user privileges
- manipulating wiki pages
- manipulating tickets, their priorities and severities
- working with project milestones
- working with ticket resolutions
- working with components
- combining commands into working scripts
Trac Permissions
- Repository browser permissions
- Ticket system permissions
- Roadmap permissions
- Reports permissions
- Wiki system permissions
- Granting and revoking permissions
- Permission groups
Customisation. logging and interfacing
- Understanding the Trac configuration file
- Customising the Trac interface
- Installing and managing Trac plugin extensions
- Setting up and managing email notification
- Logging and its effective uses
Workflow
- Overview of Workflow concepts
- Understanding the Trac Workflow State Machine model
- Workflow customisation
- Adding testing with Workflow
- Adding workflow states to Milestone Progress Bars
- Introduction to more advanced ticket workflow plugins
Putting it all together - Management Issues and Scenarios
- Working out a team groupworking and co-ordination strategy
- Communicating via email
- Combining Trac with quality control and testing
- Combining Trac with lean and Six Sigma [optional modulue]
- Structuring Trac projects
- Using Trac as a project administration tool