Christian Boos

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

• Trac Project: cboos
• IrcChannel: cboos
• email: < cboos-at-neuf-dot-fr >

Contributions to Trac

Tickets I've completed, tickets that are still opened.

Some of the Past Proposals (now in Trac):

• TicketTypes (integrated in 0.9) related tickets
• TracDiff (integrated in 0.10) related tickets
• TracMercurial (plugin for Mercurial)
• InterTrac and InterWiki (integrated in 0.10) related tickets
• PageTemplates (integrated in 0.11)
• VcRefactoring/BrowserQuickjump (integrated in 0.11)
• WikiContext (integrated in 0.11)
• MultipleRepositorySupport (integrated in 0.12)
• WikiRename (integrated in 0.12)
• TracDev/Proposals/AdvancedWikiFormatting@25 (integrated in 0.12)

I also worked a bit on the DatabaseBackend refactoring and plan to add support for Oracle one day (#1874).

My main development environment is TracStandalone on Windows using PySqlite.

Next Steps

Well, everything is a bit inter-related…

I can nevertheless highlight two majors themes for the upcoming developments.

Major topics

Wiki improvements

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

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

Rework of the data model

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

Other concerns

• JinjaSupport
• SearchRefactoring
• VcRefactoring
  • improved cache
  • commenting and reviewing support?
  • graph based revision log
• generalized change notifications
• AdvancedSearch
• Oracle support
• VcRefactoring/Controller

See also TracDev/ToDo for the more immediate tasks.

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)