= Required Trac Refactorings =

Some of the Bitten features require extensions and refactorings of Trac itself to allow seamless integration. This page describes the required work and tracks the progress made.

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== Custom Database Tables ==

The Bitten plugin for Trac will require a set of custom tables in the Trac database. There needs to be a way to allow plugins to create their own tables when an environment is initialized, or in retrospect when the plugin is enabled for an existing environment.

=== Status ===
Work on this has not started yet.

== File Annotations ==

=== Objectives ===
To integrate the display of metrics such as code coverage or style problems into the Trac [wiki:TracBrowser repository browser], the {{{trac.mimeview}}} framework needs to be extended to allow annotation of files in an extendible way.

=== Status ===
Work on this has not started yet.

== Notification on Repository Events ==

=== Objectives ===
The Bitten plugin needs to be notified when Trac detects new changesets in the repository. 

=== Status ===
Work on this has not started yet.

== Plugin-specific Permissions ==

=== Objectives ===
The current permission system in Trac needs to be revised so that it either becomes more generic, or allows plugins to define their own actions and meta-permissions.

=== Status ===
Some preliminary work has gone into the branch [http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/browser/branches/cmlenz-dev/perm/ cmlenz-dev/perm]. Also there has been a [http://lists.edgewall.com/archive/trac/2005-May/003206.html proposal] for a redesigned permission system on the mailing list.