tracim

Tracim - Introduction

Tracim is a collaborative software designed to allow people to share and work on various data and document types.

If you hesitate to install a wiki, a forum or a file management software, stop hesitating and install Tracim.

With Tracim, you manage in the same place:

• forum-like threads,
• files and automatic versioning,
• wiki-like pages for online information,

All data offers:

• information status: open / resolved / cancelled / deprecated
• native versioning
• comment threads making Tracim knowledge-growth ready.

Join Tracim community : http://tracim.org

Use-cases

Collaborate with clients

Share information with your clients.

In the same place you will be able to share trouble-shooting threads, files and general information. You can define who the information is shared with.

Example: share the documentation with all your users, run a forum open to your clients, another forum for your collaborators and share troubleshooting threads with each of your clients in a private workspace.

Run a community of experts or passionate people

Collaborate and share experience and stimulate knowledge growth.

In a unique place, you centralize files and threads, and raw information too. Every collaborator can update the information status. Stop worrying about information loss: the traceability is at the hearth of Tracim.

The newcomers knowledge growth is easy because all information has a status and full history. You get the status of information and know how it got there.

Work on quality-driven projects

In quality-driven projects like research and development, knowledge and quality are more important that task ownership and deadlines.

With Tracim, you centralize information, you can stay in touch by configuring your email notifications and work on several projects.

Manage documents and files

Traceability and versioning are very important for high-quality processes. Unfortunately, specialized software are hard to setup and use.

Let's try Tracim ! You define access-control for each workspace and store documents and file there. Users can't delete information: everything is versioned and never deleted.

The user interface is easy to use: it's based on the well-known folders and files explorer paradigm.

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Tracim - the software

Licence

Tracim is licensed under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.

Technical information

Tracim is a web application:

• developed with python 3.4, 3.5, 3.6
• based on the TurboGears web framework.
• relying on PostgreSQL or MySQL or SQLite as the storage engine.

The user interface is based on the following resources and technologies:

• Mako templating engine (server-side)
• Bootstrap 3
• jQuery
• Icons are taken from Tango Icons and Font Awesome
• The design is based on the Bootstrap dashboard example and uses some images from Start Boostrap free templates

It runs on Debian GNU/Linux, it should work out-of-the-box on Ubuntu and also on other GNU/Linux distributions.

Hopefully it works on BSD and Windows OSes (but this has not been tested yet).

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Use it (or give it a try)

Online Demo

The easiest way to test Tracim is to test it through the online demo:

• http://demo.tracim.fr
• login as admin: admin@admin.admin
• password: admin@admin.admin

Ask for a dedicated instance

If you want your own dedicated instance but do not want to manage it by yourself, let's contact me at damien.accorsi@free.fr

Install Tracim on your server

Following the installation documentation below, you'll be able to run your own instance on your server.

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Installation

Distribution dependencies

You'll need to install the following packages :

sudo apt install git realpath redis-server \
                 python3 python-virtualenv python3-dev python-pip  python-lxml \
                 build-essential libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev libjpeg-dev

Get the source

Get the sources from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/tracim/tracim.git
cd tracim/

Note: Now everything is documented to be executed from the tracim directory newly created.

Frontend dependencies

Install nodejs by typing:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_7.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt install -y nodejs

Check that this went well by getting npm version:

npm -v

Then install frontend dependencies listed in the file package.json:

npm install

At last, compile frontend files:

npm run gulp-dev # for a development environment
# npm run gulp-prod # for a production environment

Tracim virtual environment

Create a python virtual environment:

virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3.4 tg2env

Activate it in your terminal session (all tracim command execution must be executed under this virtual environment):

source tg2env/bin/activate

Install Tracim and its dependencies:

cd tracim && python setup.py develop && cd -
pip install -r install/requirements.txt

Configuration files

Create configuration files for a development environment and for WsgiDAV:

cp tracim/development.ini.base tracim/development.ini
cp tracim/wsgidav.conf.sample tracim/wsgidav.conf

Translation

Compile translation binary files from available catalogs:

python setup.py compile_catalog

Database schema

The last step before running the application is to initialize the database schema. This is done through the following command:

cd tracim && gearbox setup-app && cd -

Running the paste http server

gearbox serve

While developing, the following command may be more convenient:

gearbox serve --reload --debug

Running the standalone server

Now you can run the standalone server:

./bin/run.sh

Which should result in something like this:

13:53:49,982 INFO  [gearbox] Starting subprocess with file monitor
13:53:50,646 WARNI [py.warnings] /tmp/tracim/protov1/tg2env/lib/python3.2/site-packages/tw2/core/validation.py:12: ImportWarning: Not importing directory '/tmp/tracim/protov1/tg2env/lib/python3.2/site-packages/tw2/core/i18n': missing __init__.py
  from .i18n import _

13:53:50,862 INFO  [gearbox] Starting server in PID 11174.
Starting HTTP server on http://0.0.0.0:8080

You can now enter the application at http://localhost:8080 and login with admin user.

• user : admin@admin.admin
• password : admin@admin.admin

If admin user not created yet, execute following command:

gearbox user create -l admin@admin.admin -p admin@admin.admin -g managers -g administrators

Enjoy :)

Going further

Here is additional documentation about configuring:

• Apache
• PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLAlchemy
• Tracim

Support and Community

Building the community is a work in progress.

Need help ? Do not hesitate to contact me : damien.accorsi@free.fr

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