Roundup vs Trac

Roundup is a customizable issue-tracking system for work ranging from bugs and TODOs to customer support, IETF issues, sales leads, and conference paper submissions. It offers web, email, command-line, REST, and XML-RPC interfaces, with five templates users can adapt. Issues support saved or shared searches, full-text message search, detailed change histories, and email-based interaction.

Users can extend the database schema and web interface, and add business rules with auditors and reactors. Roundup supports embedded SQLite and dbm databases, with upgrade paths to MySQL or PostgreSQL. It can run in Docker or Kubernetes, as a standalone network server, or through WSGI, FastCGI, or CGI. The project describes HTTPS and fine-grained authorization options and says data remains on the user's servers. Roundup requires Python 3.10 or later. It is Free Software, with the core MIT licensed and separate licenses for noted bundled components. The project offers moderated mailing lists and an IRC channel for help and developer contact.

Trac is a free, self-hosted system for software development projects that combines issue tracking with a wiki. It takes a minimal approach to web-based project management. The wiki markup works not only in wiki pages but also in ticket descriptions and comments, version-control log messages, milestone descriptions and reports. It can link bugs, tasks, changesets, files and wiki pages. Trac provides an interface to Subversion, Git and other version control systems. Its timeline orders current and past project events chronologically, while its roadmap lists upcoming milestones. Plugins are listed among the resources for extending or customizing a setup, and custom workflows and workflow automation are available. Trac is deployed as a Python web application through WSGI and a web server such as Apache; authentication can be configured through web-server mechanisms including Basic and Digest. The project homepage identifies version 1.6 as the latest stable release. Listed platforms are Linux, macOS, Windows, web and self-hosted. The free plan costs nothing.