CVSTrac's home [http://www.cvstrac.org/] advertises it as "A Web-Based Bug And Patch-Set
Tracking System For [CVS]".  To developers, it offers [SCM] functionality, layered over
[CVS].  It's roughly comparable to [Bonsai].  It improves on CVS with the key
abstraction of "change sets" or "patch-sets".

Key to effective use of CVSTrac is its "timeline" [[explain]].  This 
[http://cvs.hwaci.com/tktoolkit/timeline] is the live timeline for 
[tktoolkit], which illustrates [[explain]].  [DRH] writes, "When you have multiple 
people working on a project, the timeline is
invaluable for keeping up with what others are doing.  . . . Timeline-like stuff
is very important to [CMM] nazis."  A timeline quickly answers such questions as,
"What's news since release X.XX?"

CVSTrac builds in a convenient [Wiki].  Its reporting facility permits 
arbitrary [SQL] queries.  It "tickets" [[explain]] conveniently.





Startup instructions for CVSTrac are here
[http://www.cvstrac.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=CvstracInstallation].



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What will it take so that CVSTrac uses [HTTP] authentication?