= Move Off Trac =

The goal of this page is to cover the phases of a project aiming at moving some critical features from Trac to an other solution (or combination of).

== Scope ==

=== Goals and Requirements ===

1. MUST replace Trac as currently used for Ticket and Wiki by some alternative(s):
   * MUST look better: current UI looks old which makes the Tahoe-LAFS project looking dead
   * MUST be better maintained: Trac is dying? max 2 contributors per month - https://openhub.net/p/trac
   * MUST be easier to maintain: Trac is difficult to update (current = v1.0.13/2016-09-11, latest = v1.6.0/2023-09-23)?
   * MUST allow Self-Registration (Trac requires manual registration via email)
   * COULD support OAuth2 with GitHub? 
   * MUST be (F)OSS
   * MUST be self-hostable
       * note "able": MUST be a story for getting to a self-hosted instance if we want
       * ..but doesn't have to be self-hosted right away
2. MUST replace the current landing page (StartPage from the Wiki):
   * preferably with a static blog/page generator updated from a Git repo (e.g.: (Go)Jekyll, HuGo)
   * possibly with a LAMP stack as discussed: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/3892
3. COULD be used to replace:
   * GitHub code hosting and review (pull request), keeping only a mirrored clone
   * GitHub Actions (to avoid leaving secrets in environment variables)
   * Circle CI (to avoid giving them too many permissions)

=== Inclusions ===

* Trac users of the Tahoe-LAFS project
* Trac issues of the Tahoe-LAFS project
* Trac wiki pages of the Tahoe-LAFS project
* Trac HTML home page of the Tahoe-LAFS project
* Hall of Fame HTML page of the Tahoe-LAFS project
* The related DNS records (mostly: tahoe-lafs.org)

=== Exclusions ===

* Binary repository for Tahoe-LAFS releases (https://tahoe-lafs.org/downloads)
* Other Trac projects (see DevInfra)
* Buildbot master instances for some other Trac projects
* DARCS SCM for some of the other Trac projects
* Any other services provided by the current server and not yet documented in DevInfra

=== Deliverables ===

1. A VPS (hosted by Hetzner) providing 4 features powered by NixOS and Gitea:
   * a tracking system provisioned with the issues migrated from Trac (same numbers)
   * a Wiki system provisioned with the relevant pages migrated from Trac (same names)
   * a static website replacing the landing page from Trac with the code required for CI and CD
   * a repository defining the VPS it-self and its configuration as code (including the secrets)
2. A detailed migration plan to handle the transition (DNS changes and/or redirections)
3. An high-level migration plan for the 3 first features above to be later hosted on Codeberg SaaS (assuming it is possible)