= 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 [query:?owner=cboos&status=closed&resolution=fixed completed], 
tickets that are still [query:?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&group=&owner=cboos&order=priority opened].

Some of the Past Proposals (now in Trac):
 * TicketTypes (integrated in [milestone:0.9]) [query:keywords~=tickettype related tickets]
 * TracDiff (integrated in [milestone:0.10]) [query:keywords~=tracdiff related tickets]
 * TracMercurial (plugin for Mercurial)
 * InterTrac and InterWiki (integrated in [milestone:0.10]) [query:keywords~=intertrac related tickets]
 * PageTemplates (integrated in [milestone:0.11])
 * VcRefactoring/BrowserQuickjump (integrated in [milestone:0.11])
 * WikiContext (integrated in [milestone:0.11])
 * MultipleRepositorySupport (integrated in [milestone:0.12])
 * WikiRename (integrated in [milestone:0.12])
 * [[TracDev/Proposals/AdvancedWikiFormatting@25]] (integrated in [milestone: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 [milestone:0.13].
 - WikiEngine refactoring
   * TracDev/Proposals/WikiParserFormatterSplit
   * TracDev/Proposals/VerticalHorizontalParsing
   * TracDev/Proposals/AdvancedWikiFormatting
   * FlexibleWikiPageNames
 - TracDev/Proposals/AdvancedWikiOperations
   * TicketAliases
 - TracCrossReferences (simplified - only implicit cross-references) [query:keywords~=xref related tickets]

==== Rework of the data model
 - GenericTrac
   * TracObjectModelProposal (brainstorming always in progress) ([query:keywords~=tracobject related tickets])
   * second stage of FieldRefactoring
 - MultipleProjectSupport 
 - TighterSubversionIntegration, or more generally, DistributedTrac ([query:keywords~=objectstore 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 ([http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/ Hg], [http://git-scm.com git])
 * Software Construction (GNU `make`)
 * Software Documentation
 * Continuous Integration ([Bitten:])
 * Collaborative Groupware (wikis)
 * Computer Languages ([http://www.ruby-lang.org/en Ruby],
   C++, O'Caml, Bash and ... [http://www.python.org Python])