[Trac] Re: Pluggable Modules

[Justus Pendleton]

Greg Wilson wrote:
> Some of my students are therefore going to be looking at adding better
> comms to Trac.  Question is, what kind?  Blogs aren't the right way to
> organize meetings or ask teammates when they're going to fix that damn
> refresh bug; that leaves mailing lists, bulletin boards, and NNTP
> newsgroups, all of which have their pro's and con's when you're running
> 120 projects.  In the interest of keeping things small, we'd really rather
> not add more than one...

I think mailing lists, bulletin boards, and NNTP are just three 
different views of the same model.  Mailing lists and NNTP in 
particular, as setting up a gateway between them is easy.

I'm not clear on exactly what "adding one" to trac entails.  What kinds 
of things do people want to see in an integration between trac and a 
mailing list/bboard/nntp?  For myself, I don't see much beyond adding 
wiki parsing to make adding links from trac items to external 
"communication" URLs easier.