[p4] Recommendations for Defect Tracking Solutions

[Lewis Baker]

Lewis Baker wrote:
> perforceuser at spamex.com wrote:
>> What are your recommendations for a good defect tracking solution to  
>> work with Perforce?
>>
>> I like Trac, but it won't work with Perforce (I need something more  
>> than the hacked plugin). It also doesn't seem to scale particularly  
>> well.
> 
> We use Trac as our defect tracking solution and have developed a new
> Perforce plugin for Trac inhouse that seems to be more scalable than the
> existing Trac plugin. We are currently using it successfully on a
> repository of around 80000 changes.
> 
> The plugin uses Trac's SQL backend to cache some changelist information
> so that markup of wiki changelist links and Trac's timeline doesn't have
> to go back to Perforce every time or have the entire Perforce metadata
> in memory. When it does have to go out to Perforce it uses the
> PyPerforce interface.
> 
> Trac's source browsing and file and directory diffs make quite a useful
> tool for interrogating a Perforce repository, comparable to most graphical
> diff tools.
>
> We haven't gotten around to adding P4DTI-style integration between
> Perforce jobs and Trac tickets yet but it's something we're looking to
> do in the near future.
> 
> I'm not sure if I can publish the source for the plugin yet but if
> enough people are interested then I can certainly investigate releasing
> it as open source.

There was some interest in the Perforce plugin for Trac so I've put a
bit more work into it and put it up on SourceForge for everyone to use.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=162781

It still needs some work to get integration between Perforce jobs/fixes
and Trac tickets implemented. If anyone is interested in collaborating
on this then drop me a line.

Let me know if you find the plugin useful.

Cheers,
Lewis.

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Lewis Baker                                               I-SiTE
Software Engineer                               3D Laser Imaging
Email  : lewis at isite3d.com.au         http://www.isite3d.com.au/