Christian Boos

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

• Trac Project: cboos
• IrcChannel: cboos
• email: < christian-dot-boos-at-free-dot-fr >
• Public GPG Key Christian Boos cboos@edgewall.org (0x2209F636) pub.asc​

My main development environment is TracStandalone on Windows using PySqlite.

Past contributions

I've completed a few tickets over the past couple years.

Some highlights…

Milestone 0.9

• TicketTypes related tickets

Milestone 0.10

• TracDiff related tickets
• TracMercurial (plugin for Mercurial)
• InterTrac and InterWiki related tickets
• DatabaseBackend

Milestone 0.11

• PageTemplates
• VcRefactoring/BrowserQuickjump
• WikiContext

Milestone 0.12

• MultipleRepositorySupport
• WikiRename
• TracDev/Proposals/AdvancedWikiFormatting@25

Next Steps

See TracDev/ToDo for the more immediate tasks.

Well, everything is a bit inter-related… I can nevertheless highlight two majors themes for the upcoming developments.

Wiki improvements

This will be one of the main focus for the next version 0.13.

• WikiEngine refactoring
  • TracDev/Proposals/WikiStorage and TracDev/Proposals/WikiNamespaces
  • TracDev/Proposals/WikiParserFormatterSplit
  • TracDev/Proposals/VerticalHorizontalParsing
  • TracDev/Proposals/AdvancedWikiFormatting
  • FlexibleWikiPageNames
• TracDev/Proposals/AdvancedWikiOperations
  • TicketAliases
• TracCrossReferences (simplified - only implicit cross-references) related tickets

Not everything for the above will be available in the next version of course, but this gives the scope of things I'd like to achieve.

Rework of the data model

• MultipleProjectSupport
• GenericTrac
  • TracObjectModelProposal (related tickets)
  • second stage of FieldRefactoring
• TighterSubversionIntegration, or more generally, DistributedTrac (related tickets)

Same remark as above. Nevertheless I intend to continue to put together the basic building stones for reaching these goals.

Other concerns

• Development Process Improvements - #9235, topic branches and integration branches
• TracPerformance and TracDev/Performance
• TracDev/Proposals/Jinja or other ways to improve template engine speed
• SearchRefactoring
• VcRefactoring
  • improved cache
  • commenting and reviewing support?
  • graph based revision log

Longer term

• Generalized change notifications
• AdvancedSearch
• Oracle support
• VcRefactoring/Controller

Misc.

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

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