# Engines on the move **URL:** \ **Category:** Engines\ **Created:** [February 28, 2006, 4:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/engines-on-the-move/54282 "2006-02-28T16:23:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nitr0z](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ba9def/32.png) [@nitr0z](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nitr0z)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 4:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/engines-on-the-move/54282/1 "2006-02-28T16:23:49Z")
Hi all, In the next few days or so, the engines SVN repository is going to be moving from the (excellent) opensvn hosts to their own server, [http://dev.rails-engines.org/svn/](http://dev.rails-engines.org/svn/). The repository is mirrored there at the moment, but eventually this will become the primary location for development, and where ‘script/plugin’ will download from. There’s no need to switch your copies quite yet, however, I’ll post again when the ‘official’ switch happens. What I would like to know is if anyone has any preferences over the bug tracking software we use. I have both Trac and Collaboa running at the moment, and I’m leaning towards Collaboa, purely in terms of hackability given it’s written in Ruby. However, if anyone can make a strong case for either, I’d definitely like to know. - James – - J \* ~ ---
**Author:** ![nitr0z](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ba9def/32.png) [@nitr0z](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nitr0z)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 4:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/engines-on-the-move/54282/2 "2006-02-28T16:30:05Z")
I vote for Collaboa for hackability reasons. Mauro ---
**Author:** ![nitr0z](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ba9def/32.png) [@nitr0z](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nitr0z)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/engines-on-the-move/54282/3 "2006-02-28T16:51:43Z")
No preference really here James. I will say I haven’t been a big fan of trac for the little bit that I’ve used it. It just doesn’t seem to ‘work’ in the whole scheme of things. But, I’ve never used Collaboa either so I’m not sure if its really any better (in my view). -Nick ---
**Author:** ![nitr0z](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ba9def/32.png) [@nitr0z](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nitr0z)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 4:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/engines-on-the-move/54282/4 "2006-02-28T16:54:46Z")
If you can be a bit more specific about it not ‘working’, we might be able to see about the suitability of Collaboa - which, incidentally, models itself on Trac quite heavily in terms of the fundamental entities and so on. Maybe you can suggest something else? - james On 2/28/06, Nick S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > – - J \* ~ ---
**Author:** ![nitr0z](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ba9def/32.png) [@nitr0z](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nitr0z)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 5:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/engines-on-the-move/54282/5 "2006-02-28T17:22:46Z")
I don’t if I’m a good canidate to give a detailed description on its issues as I haven’t used it enough. I’m most familiar with bugzilla (go figure) and JIRA for other projects I’ve used. With JIRA being the one I actually prefered over bugzilla. Maybe once I get using either of these systems I’ll come around (maybe). If anything I would say collaboa if its based of trac for the reason being that its done in ruby. Trac is done in python correct? -Nick ---
**Author:** ![nitr0z](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ba9def/32.png) [@nitr0z](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nitr0z)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 1:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/engines-on-the-move/54282/6 "2006-03-01T01:58:02Z")
+1 for Collaboa. The interface just look so much nicer 🙂 -Nb ```auto Nathaniel S. H. Brown http://nshb.net ``` ---
**Author:** ![nitr0z](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ba9def/32.png) [@nitr0z](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nitr0z)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/engines-on-the-move/54282/7 "2006-03-01T18:10:57Z")
I also prefer Collaboa as it is just much simpler, cleaner and easier to use. The two big things that trac has going for it are the wiki and reports. But with with the existing wiki at [rails-engines.org](http://rails-engines.org) that’s less of an issue. And the filters on the “Tickets” page does a nice job of dealing with data in the way that trac reports do. Simplicity, to me, is always preferable if you get everything you really need. Lance