[Trac] Re: Pluggable Modules

[Justus Pendleton]

Brad Anderson wrote:
> 3.  ForumPlugin - I've begun work on forums code so that each project
>  in the multiple projects site I host will be able to have its own 
> forums.

The first thing I thought of when I came across trac was the need for it
to have better "communication" integration.  I can have a a changeset
reference a ticket but it would nice if the ticket could (easily)
reference mailing list posts.  Of course, you can just hard code URLs to
a mailing list archive but I was thinking something more wiki-wordish
like post:2314.

What would be ideal would be something that seamlessly presents the same
data (user posts and comments) in three different ways: mailing list,
nntp, and http forums.  So that people can access them in the way they
prefer.  When I run trac in a corporate setting my team uses NNTP.  But
for open source projects a web forum might be a better choice.  Then you
can configure whether post:2314 generates a news:// link or an http://
link to a bboard.

I did some work in this direction using mailman, although figuring out
the URL for an individual entry in the mailing list archive was a
stumbling block.  And I don't have any web forum stuff in place.

Really I guess I want a "gmane plugin" for trac but not have to rely on
gmane.  (For corporate uses that don't exactly want their internal dev
discussions out in the wild, wild internet :-)

I agree that plugins are the way to go....