anonymous access to trac and rss feeds now works

[Stephen Bannasch]

Anyone can now view changesets and source revisions in the trac projects listed at this url:

  http://trac.cosmos.concord.org

This means you can share a url to a changeset with folks outside of cc. It also mean that you or they can subscribe to rss feeds for many of the collection views that trac supports.

For example to see a list of all the recent changesets checked in to the CC 'projects' repository open this url in a browser:

  http://trac.cosmos.concord.org/projects/timeline

At the bottom of the page you should see an orange XML icon with a link to the RSS feed next to it:

  

Here's what the link looks like:

http://trac.cosmos.concord.org/projects/timeline?milestone=on&ticket=on&changeset=on&wiki=on&max=50&daysback=90&format=rss

Drag or paste that link into your newsreader to subscribe to all the changesets for the projects subversion repository.

Trac supports RSS feeds in these areas:

* TracTimeline -- Use the RSS feed to subscribe to project events. Monitor overall project progress in your favorite RSS reader.

* TracTickets, TracReports, and TracQuery -- Allows syndication of report and ticket query results. Be notified about important and relevant issue tickets.

[We aren't using these features of Trac at this time.]

* TracBrowser and TracRevisionLog -- Syndication of file changes. Stay up to date with changes to a specific file or directory.

See: http://trac.cosmos.concord.org/projects/wiki/TracRss for more info.

Editing or creation of wiki pages, tickets, etc should be disabled for all anonymous users. If you want to edit or create anything you need to login by clicking the 'Login' link in the upper right and use your standard CC authentication tokens. If you are on a page accessed through the http:// protocol when you click "Login" you will be re-directed to the same page via the https:// protocol.

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- Stephen Bannasch
  Concord Consortium, http://www.concord.org