SC-Track Roundup 0.6.0 - an issue tracking system

[Richard Jones]

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SC-Track Roundup 0.6.0 - an issue tracking system
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I'm pleased to announce the latest feature-packed release of Roundup. See
below for a list of some of the goodies included in this release.

If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow
the "Software Upgrade" guidelines given in the maintenance documentation. 

Unfortunately, the Zope frontend for Roundup is currently broken. I hope to
revive it in a future 0.6 bugfix release.

The gadfly backend has now been removed, having served its purpose as a
template for other RDBMS implementations. It is replaced by the sqlite and 
mysql backends.

Roundup requires python 2.1.3 or later for correct operation.

The 0.6 release has lots of new goodies including:

- new instant-gratification Demo Mode ("python demo.py" :)
- added mysql backend (see doc/mysql.txt for details)
- web interface cleanups including nicer history display, nicer index
  navigation and nicer popup list windows
- searching of date ranges
- better international support, including utf-8 email handling and ability
  to display localized dates in web interface.
- more documentation including revamped design document, unix manual pages
  and some FAQ entries
- significantly more powerful form handling allowing editing of multiple
  items and creation of multiple items
- tracker templates can contain subdirectories and static files (e.g.
  images) and we may now distribute templates separately from Roundup.
  Template HTML files now have a .html extension too.
- user registration is now a two-step process, with confirmation from the
  email address supplied in the registration form, and we also have a
  password reset feature for forgotten password / login
- Windows Service mode for roundup-server when daemonification is
  attempted on Windows
- lots of speed enhancements, making the web interface much more responsive
- fixed issues with dumb email or web clients
- email system handles more SMTP and POP features (TLS, APOP, ...)
- lots more little tweaks and back-end work...

Source and documentation is available at the website:
     http://roundup.sourceforge.net/
Release Info (via download page):
     http://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup
Mailing lists - the place to ask questions:
     http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=31577


About Roundup
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Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with 
command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design 
from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition.

Note: Ping is not responsible for this project. The contact for this project 
is richard@users.sourceforge.net.

Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as 
"description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability to:

(a) submit new issues,
(b) find and edit existing issues, and
(c) discuss issues with other participants.

The system will facilitate communication among the participants by managing
discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are edited. One of
the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to get going. Roundup
is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python 2.1+ installation. It
doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational, though a
disutils-based install script is provided.

It comes with two issue tracker templates (a classic bug/feature tracker and
a minimal skeleton) and six database back-ends (anydbm, bsddb, bsddb3, sqlite,
metakit and mysql).