{"id":367,"date":"2003-04-12T15:28:09","date_gmt":"2003-04-12T19:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=367"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"cvstrac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/12\/cvstrac\/","title":{"rendered":"CVSTrac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serious software development requires keeping track of &ldquo;issues&rdquo;: bugs, feature requests, unresolved support incidents, code snippets, prototyping results, URLs, etc. A few months ago, I dumped my home-made FileMaker database for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cvstrac.org\">CVSTrac<\/a>, and I couldn&rsquo;t be happier. The developer has shown enormous restraint in keeping it simple, and the result is one of the most elegant pieces of open source software that I&rsquo;ve seen. (Apparently, the code is elegant <a href=\"http:\/\/cvs.cvstrac.org\/wiki?p=CvstracArchitecture\">too<\/a>.) If you&rsquo;re on a huge project, you might want something <a href=\"http:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/\">heavier<\/a>, but CVSTrac is more than enough for most smaller teams, I think. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/cvs.cvstrac.org\">try it out<\/a> on CVSTrac&rsquo;s own server. I&rsquo;ve posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-command.com\/tools\/cvstrac.shtml\">Mac OS X build<\/a>. Hopefully I&rsquo;ll have time to write a full review soon.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serious software development requires keeping track of &ldquo;issues&rdquo;: bugs, feature requests, unresolved support incidents, code snippets, prototyping results, URLs, etc. A few months ago, I dumped my home-made FileMaker database for CVSTrac, and I couldn&rsquo;t be happier. The developer has shown enormous restraint in keeping it simple, and the result is one of the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}