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This little app will look at the summary from the currently viewed Trac ticket and find related questions & answers on stackoverflow, or other stackexchange sites.

Screenshot stack-trac http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/7954/stacktrac.png (see full size)

Installation

Similar to a normal Trac plugin: http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracPlugins

Full instructions:

  1. Download the stack-trac source from http://code.google.com/p/stack-trac/source/checkout
  2. cd to stacktrac-plugin
  3. run python setup.py bdist_egg (note: due to a bug, need to run: 'python setup.py develop' instead. I have a fix but can't make it till I get back from work today)
  4. copy dist/Stacktrac... to your_trac_project_folder/plugins

  5. enable stacktrac in your trac.ini by adding the following

    [components]

    stacktrac.* = enabled

Configuring the site used by stacktrac: add the following to your trac.ini:

[stacktrac]
site = http://www.stackoverflow.com
apiSite = http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0

where stackoverflow is replaced by the SE site you would like to query

This is what I would call a pre-alpha release to get some feedback. Lots of hardening & new features for stack-trac's stack exchange api wrapper to come. First time using Python. I must admit, I kinda like the language ;)

If the look and feel is deemed to be too similar to SE sites I'll gladly update it.

License

Apache 2

Download

http://code.google.com/p/stack-trac/source/checkout

Code

Written in Python, hosted @ google code http://code.google.com/p/stack-trac

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  • Isn't Python such a fun language to learn the first time you use it? I sure thought it was.
    – Nathan Osman
    Commented Jul 30, 2010 at 1:12
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    Minor note, you probably don't want the API version you're targeting to be configurable (the apiSite configuration). Subsequent API version will contain numerous breaking changes, but 1.0 will be kept around for quite awhile.
    – Kevin Montrose
    Commented Jul 30, 2010 at 1:30
  • @George yep, and I actually ended up enjoying the fact that code blocks are indicated by spacing. Although I have mixed feelings on the mix of operators, global functions and method calls. E.g., getting the length of a list is len(list) and not list.length()... and using |= to append to structures... I'm sure there are reasons for it, but I'm not educated enough about the language yet.
    – Matt Wonlaw
    Commented Jul 30, 2010 at 16:27

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I noticed a bug while installing this as en egg.... you may get a "template not found" error. The work around is to run "python setup.py develop" instead of "python setup.py bdist_egg" and skip the copying steps. I'll let you know once I find a fix for this.

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