Though I had experience with cvs and subversion mostly through open source (mostly in sourceforge), I remember installing Trac around the time it first came out

Though I had experience with cvs and subversion mostly through open source (mostly in sourceforge), I remember installing Trac around the time it first came out, and using that as equivalent to what would be done with GitHub today. Of course you had to have one install of it per project (or per 'organization', depending on your repository setup), and run it on a server somewhere. Trac was great though, especially for the time: subversion server, source and changeset browser, tickets, wiki, roadmap. Aside from my own personal stuff, I switched several open source projects to it, and got a couple companies on to it. It quickly became to me an essential part of the dev stack, and was a great way to get the full dev stack* up and running relatively quickly. * Other than continuous integration, but for me that came later. I worked on a lot of php stuff that could be deployed from source and never really saw the need then. Now I think it's essential and don't work without it.