If you are a regular reader of my blog you will notice that I stress ( shovel on at times) the importance of source control when developing. Along with source control I always advocate the use of Subversion and as a bi-product Trac.

I feel these things are important enough that I volunteered (threatened bodily harm against project leaders) to host the svn and trac sites for several of our community projects. The ones that took me up on that offer have had mixed emotions over the process. I think in general they have been pretty happy with the setup and not having to manage it, but we were over run with spam.

Yes Trac spam folks. On some days I was deleting as many as 30 spams tickets from the Fusebox 5, Model-Glue and Reactor Trac sites.

Well I have been testing out the new version of trac (0.10dev) and have been successful in installing several plugins that I feel will eliminate the problems we have had. The most noteworthy of these is an account registration plugin. So now in order to log bugs and edit the wiki for these projects you need to create an account. Thats it. You can still read the wiki and browse tickets anonymously but if you want to edit the site you need an account.

We moved the Model-Glue and Reactor Projects to the new server last night. It appears all is well so far (meaning no spam in 24hours) So I am hopeful that this will be a positive and permanent solution to our problem. We are waiting on some dns changes to move the fusebox project, but it will go soon.

In addition to these cf framework sites, I am also taking over the hosting of for CFEclipse. Well the repository and ticket system that is. We are still working on getting marks changes checked into the new version but soon we will have a new project site for the development of CFEclipse. Which really means we can starting making plans towards creating a regular release cycle where bugs and enhancments are get planned into releases :)

At any rate, I am very happy with the new version of trac, and even though it is still a dev release I have found it to be very stable. Its made my life easier all over again.