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1. Trac-(Plug-in-)Entwicklertreffen in Dresden (German developer meeting)

Am 19.06.2013, nach einem der ersten heißen Sommertage des Jahres, trafen sich Entwickler im Cafe Max in Dresden, Louisenstraße 65. Der Abend verflog bei angeregter Unterhaltung. Die Anwesenden waren sich einig, die Gespräche bei Gelegenheit fortzusetzen.

Themen:

  • Kennenlernen, regionale und persönliche Erlebnisse des gerade erlebten Elbe-Hochwassers
  • frühere und aktuelle Ereignisse der Trac-Gemeinschaft, besonders die t-h.o-Aktualisierung
  • beliebte Entwicklerwerkzeuge und Arbeitstechniken
    • automatische Tests (unittests) und verwandte Konzepte 1
    • persönliche Hilfsmittel zur Nachnutzung 2
    • Hinweise auf frühere Treffen des Dresdner Unix-Stammtischs 3
    • Arbeit mit verteiltem Versionskontrollsystem (DVCS), überwiegend Mercurial
  • Spaß, gutes Essen und erfrischende Getränke
  • Organisatorisches und Planungen

(transcript - English version) On 19th of June 2013, after one of the first hot summer days of the year, developers met at Cafe Max in Dresden, Louisenstraße 65. Excited conversation made the evening flew by. Participants agreed to continue the talks at another occasion.

Topics:

  • get-together, regional and personal experiences of the flood of river Elbe, that just passed by
  • historical and recent Trac community events, especially the t-h.o upgrade
  • preferred developer tools and working styles
    • unit testing and related concepts 1
    • personal tools for re-use 2
    • references to previous meetings of Dresden Unix user meeting 3
    • working with distributed version control system (DVCS), Mercurial by large
  • fun, good food and freshening drinks
  • organizational matters and planning

-- Reinhard, falkb, hasienda

1 "White Box Testing" a session at PYCON DE 2012 in Leipzig, Germany (German abstract and movie stream record)
2 https://bitbucket.org/ReinhardW/loc
3 http://www.sax.de/unix-stammtisch

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trac-hacks.org is multi-lingual

After installing Babel v0.9.6 and placing Trac 1.0.1 by its side now you'll notice a lot of localized content, according to your session preferences and browser language settings. And it is not only about messages, dates and time-stamps are localized as well.

Localized messages for Trac have been available even since version 0.12, but we know i18n/l10n-support for most plugins to have plenty of room for improvements, if available at all.

Make yourself familiar with the steps required to use Trac plugin i18n support in your plugin too, please. Users around the world will love you for taking care of seamless integration of you code into Trac core.

And consider joining the effort to present as many Trac plugin message catalogs as possible in a single place at Transifex for translators convenience. This way you'll get more translations done than by just letting catalogs sit and way in the repository alone.

trac-hacks.org upgraded to 1.0.1 (WIP)

We're proudly announcing the arrival of Trac 1.0.1 (current stable) at this site.

Bear with us for a number of rough edges. Most will be gone by next week. Hope to see you continuing to unleash the power of your Trac plugin development enthusiasm.

-- osimons, otaku42, rjollos, hasienda from the current Trac-Hacks.org admin group

Downtime 2011-04-06/07

The server that hosts trac-hacks.org along with the websites of the MadWiFi project has been suffering from a kind of hardware malfunction. It became unresponsive for short timespan first, then worked for several hours without any signs of problems. Things became pretty borked during this night, then at 04:22 UTC+2 the server failed. Power cycling plus a little prayer :-) helped to finally fix it at 07:00 UTC+2.

NewsFlash macro installed

As requested in #8521, the NewsFlashMacro has now been installed on trac-hacks.org. Feel free to make use of it in wiki pages where appropriate.

About the recent downtime (2010-09-24 and 25)

You certainly have noticed that trac-hacks.org was down for more than 24 hours. I apologize for any inconvenience caused by this incident. Here is what happened:

trac-hacks.org is hosted as a virtual server (based on linux-vserver) on the physical server of the MadWifi project. That server suffered from an issue that caused the host server to more or less hang. Our monitoring notified me of the problems by SMS. At that time I was on a holiday trip without internet access, so I asked my "remote hands" to reboot the server. That indeed helped to fix the original issue and the monitoring reported the server to be up and running again. Unfortunately the trac-hacks.org vserver encountered an issue during startup, preventing it from coming up normally, which remained unnoticed by the monitoring - and me. I only noticed it when I came online this evening after returning home.

On the positive side, this incident pointed out how to improve the monitoring and the startup process of the hosted vservers to prevent these issues in the future. These things will be taken care of asap.

Downtime on 2009-06-04 [updated]

trac-hacks.org will be down for some hours tomorrow, beginning at about 2009-06-04 06:00am UTC+2 (see here for your local time). It will be moved to another, more powerful server. Yes, unless anything unforeseeable happens this should be the last move required for t-h.o for some time. :-)

Update:

The work started on 07:00am, with a one hour delay. Things went smooth, so the website went online on 07:50am on the new server. Thanks for your patience.

10 minutes downtime on 2009-03-24, 5 to 6am UTC+1

trac-hacks.org will be offline for approximately 10 minutes on March 24, 2009 sometimes between 5 and 6am, UTC+1 (see here what that is in your local time). A central switch is going to be replaced, which affects the connectivity of the rack our server is in.

Mailing list available

We're happy to announce a new mailing list: th-users@… (subscribe here).

The list is meant for discussion about trac-hacks.org, i.e. the services that are provided here for the Trac community. Use it to suggest new features, discuss ways to improve the website, report issues that you come across, stuff like this. Any feedback is highly appreciated.

Please note that th-users is not meant for support requests for any of the plugins provided on trac-hacks.org by their authors. These should still be directed to the trac-users mailing list instead.