upgrade Trac to 1.2 release

[Jeff McKenna]

release notes from 2016-11-04:

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Trac 1.2 is now available.

You can find the release at the usual place: ​https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracDownload#LatestStableRelease

Trac 1.2 is the first major release of Trac in more than 4 years. The following are some highlights from the release:

• Extensible notification system (#3517)
• Notification preference panel (#4056)
• Usernames replaced with full names (#7339)
• Restyled ticket changelog (#11835)
• Workflow controls on the New Ticket page (#2045)
• Editable wiki page version comments (#6573)
• Datetime custom fields (#1942)

You can find the detailed release notes for 1.2 on the following pages: ​https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/1.2/TracChangeLog ​https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracDev/ReleaseNotes/1.1

Now to the packages themselves:

URLs: ​https://download.edgewall.org/trac/Trac-1.2-py2-none-any.whl ​https://download.edgewall.org/trac/Trac-1.2.tar.gz ​https://download.edgewall.org/trac/Trac-1.2.win32.exe ​https://download.edgewall.org/trac/Trac-1.2.win-amd64.exe ​https://download.edgewall.org/trac/Trac-1.2.zip

[strk]

Upgrade guide: ​https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracUpgrade#to1.2 (we're coming from 1.0)

[strk]

Before upgrading I'm removing plugins that are currently unused. So far I removed:

• sensitivetickets
• AdvParseArgs

Both were not enabled by any instance. Going trough more now (wiki is updated accordingly, see ​https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Trac_Instances#Plugins)

[strk]

Tracticketsstats is also gone now

[strk]

I now also removed all instance-local plugins, all of them were deprecated anyway, this should give us a clearer look about which plugins are available.

[strk]

While I try each enabled plugin against Trac-1.2 on a local system, I found a plugin which is only used by Mapserver and probably broken since last Trac upgrade: ​https://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/4275#comment:1 -- waiting to hear from them about what to do with it. I'd just drop the plugin unless someone really wants it.

[strk]

So now TracSecureTickets is also gone, dealing with TracSectionEdit now, which needs to be upgraded to 1.2.0dev before it can be used with trac-1.2, will try that now

[strk]

SectionEdit upgraded so it will work with Trac 1.2, but TracMetrixPlugin still fails and has no replacement yet, see ​https://trac-hacks.org/ticket/13041 - The only instances using the Metrix plugin are the GRASS and QGIS (deprecated) ones.

Markus: how useful is the Metrix plugin for you guys ?

[strk]

I completed the test of plugins, all the used plugins work with Trac 1.2 except the Metrix plugin, so we have to decide about it (disable or replace with a newer plugin)

[neteler]

Replying to strk:

SectionEdit upgraded so it will work with Trac 1.2, but TracMetrixPlugin still fails and has no replacement yet, see ​https://trac-hacks.org/ticket/13041 - The only instances using the Metrix plugin are the GRASS and QGIS (deprecated) ones.

Markus: how useful is the Metrix plugin for you guys ?

I'm following up on grass-dev at time - summary answer asap.

[strk]

Alternatives ( to review for supporting Trac 1.2 ) :

• ​https://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TracStatsPlugin
• ​https://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TracTicketStatsPlugin
• ​https://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TicketChartsMacro

[strk]

The final thing to take care of would be the notification system, changed in 1.2: ​https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/39#comment:11

[neteler]

Replying to strk:

Alternatives ( to review for supporting Trac 1.2 ) :

...

Thanks for the suggestions! Here the feedback from the grass-dev list:

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 7:48 PM, Vaclav wrote:

• ​https://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TracStatsPlugin

Looks good. May be useful. Seems very comprehensive. Last commit on Github from Dec 2016.

• ​https://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TracTicketStatsPlugin
• ​https://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TicketChartsMacro

Both seems to depend on Flash and unmaintained or 3rd party projects.

So, TracStatsPlugin might be a good replacement for TracMetrixPlugin

[strk]

I've installed TracStatsPlugin from the current master branch (0.5dev) and confirmed it does work with Trac-1.2.

Please enable the new plugin and disable the old one, then I'll uninstall the old one.

[neteler]

Replying to strk:

Please enable the new plugin and disable the old one, then I'll uninstall the old one.

[master 3ac918d] grass trac.ini: commented tracmetrixplugin

However, I don't know how to activate TracStatsPlugin in /var/www/trac/grass/conf/trac.ini

[strk]

Enable it via the web ui, then check with "git diff" how it changed :)

[neteler]

Replying to strk:

Enable it via the web ui, then check with "git diff" how it changed :)

How easy! :)

[master 2744930] grass trac.ini: activated TracStats plugin, see ​https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/stats

[strk]

Thanks (ouch, those stats take forever to generate, try the code/ stats). Meanwhile, I filed #1839 for the notification tweaks, last thing needed before upgrading

[strk]

LDAP Email resolution plugin is also ready: ​https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/sac/TracLDAPEmailResolverPlugin

Only, it still requires a bugfix in Trac itself, tracked here: ​https://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/12658

I'd wait a day or two to see if the patch is applied, or I'll continue with local modification updating the wiki accordingly.

Meanwhile if any python/trac developer wants to take a look at the plugin, any review is very welcome.

[strk]

Patch was applied, may be worth waiting for an official 1.2.1 before upgrade (depending on when it is expected)

[strk]

For the record: I'm also discussing a further modification to allow notifying users who did not login into the specific trac instance yet: ​https://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/12658#comment:31 If that patch is not accepted we'll still need it to replicate the current notification system (the one implemented by the patches in #39)

[strk]

I've completed the upgrade to 1.2.1dev (r15395) and now looking at issues as they raise. As part of the upgrade I've installed the TracLDAPEmailResolverPlugin (​https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/sac/TracLDAPEmailResolverPlugin) and configured it globally, so if things go as expected users watching this ticket should be getting an email notification. Let's see if it works ( ​https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/39#comment:15 )

[strk]

This is one of the issues I found: ​https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/trac-users/yaMesS3G6uo And this serves as a new test for notification (which missed another bit of configuration)

[strk]

#1864 is for tracking the infinite recursion reported in the trac-user mailing list

[strk]

Well I'm closing this as done, after also upgrading wiki. Issues that might arise will have their own ticket.

[Jeff McKenna]

Good job @strk I'm following, will also keep an eye open. And thanks for this.

[Jeff McKenna]

I noticed that Trac 1.2.1 was released today. Not sure if any recent changes help our instance:

Trac 1.2.1 is now available.


Trac 1.2.1, the first maintenance release in the 1.2.x series,
provides more than 30 minor fixes and enhancements.
The following are some highlights:

* TracIni macro generates anchors for each option (#9401)
  and allows specifying exact options and sections to 
  be rendered (#12633)
* Several fixes for the enhanced Trac notification system
  (#11928, #12658, #12700)
* Improved usability of ticket comment //Reply// and
  //Edit// buttons (#12671)
* Restored missing ticket change conflict markers
  (#12730)

[strk]

If a new upgrade is ever made make sure to re-apply local customizations: ​https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Trac#Local_Customizations

NOTE: we might already have the enhancements in Trac notification system as we were using something later than 1.2.0 (see detail on ​https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1863#comment:3)