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add security advantage of depending on core library. After reading about NPM supply chain attacks, emphasize core functions of Roundup are available without reaching out to PyPi.
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1 <head>
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2 <title>Roundup: A Simple and Effective Issue Tracker in Python</title>
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3 </head>
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8 >Roundup Short Paper</strong></big></big></font></td><td align=right
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9 ><a href="http://www.lfw.org/"
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11 ></a></td></tr></table>
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12 <h3>Roundup: A Simple and Effective Issue Tracker in Python</h3>
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13 <small><em>Ka-Ping Yee</em>
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14 (<a href="http://www.lfw.org/ping/roundup.html">original site: http://www.lfw.org/ping/roundup.html</a></small>)
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15
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16 <p>Please note that <strong>there is a new, active Roundup project</strong>
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17 led by Richard Jones. Please <a href="http://roundup.sf.net/">visit them
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20 <p>The Roundup prototype is open source. You can
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21 <a href="roundup.tar.gz"><strong>download it here</strong>
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22 (roundup.tar.gz, 32 kb)</a>.
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23 Or <strong><a href="roundup/roundup.cgi">play with the live prototype!</a>
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24 </strong>
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25 When prompted for authentication, you can use
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26 one of the test accounts: "test", "spam", or "eggs"
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27 (password same as account name). Roundup's e-mail address is
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28 <a href="mailto:roundup---lfw.org">roundup---lfw.org</a>. You can't
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29 create new accounts, but you can read the mail spools for
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32 <a href="eggs.spool">eggs</a> here to see what they're getting.
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35 <p><em>A <a href="sc-roundup.html">detailed design proposal
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37 has been submitted to
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38 <a href="http://www.software-carpentry.com/">Software Carpentry</a>'s
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39 open source software design competition.</em> This first-round
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40 submission was
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41 <a href="http://software-carpentry.codesourcery.com/first-round-results.html"
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42 >selected as a finalist</a>. A <a href="sc-roundup-2.html">more
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44 <a href="http://software-carpentry.codesourcery.com/second-round-entries.html"
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45 >second round of the competition</a>.
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46
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47 <p><em>You might also want to check out
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48 <a href="/python/">other Python-related stuff on this site</a>.</em>
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50 <hr>
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52 <p>This short talk will share some experiences from developing and using
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53 the issue tracking system used by my development group at ILM. It integrates
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55 for search and retrieval. We currently work with it daily and it
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58 <h4>Fine-Grained Mailing Lists</h4>
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60 <p>The key strength of Roundup is that it generates a small virtual
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61 mailing list for each new issue. In a way, this is like implementing
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62 private conversation rooms in e-mail. Although the mechanism is
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63 very simple, the emergent properties are quite effective. Here's
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64 how it works:
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67 <li>New issues are always submitted by sending an e-mail message.
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69 issue record, and copied to the relatively large user community of
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70 the application so everyone knows the issue has been raised.
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72 <li>All e-mail messages sent by Roundup have their "Reply-To"
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75 initial announcement and subsequent threads are all received
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76 by Roundup and appended to the spool.
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79 issue. Any mail tagged with the issue's ID number is copied
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80 to this list of people, and any users found in the From:,
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83 Web interface, they are also added to the list.
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84 </ol>
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86 <p>The result is that no one ever has to worry about subscribing to
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87 anything. Indicating interest in an issue is sufficient, and if you
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99 useful information. Although this principle is important to all
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101 because of the limited window real estate. Hence Roundup avoids
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102 repetitive or unnecessary information and tries to fit as many
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103 items as possible on the first screen. For example, Bugzilla
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108 the status of each item to help the eye sift through the index quickly.
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112 ascending submission date, which banishes recent issues as <em>far</em>
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115 immediately visible; within sections, items are sorted by date
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120 <p><hr>
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121 (The following has been added for this web page and was not
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122 part of the short paper in the IPC8 proceedings.)
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124 <h4>Screenshots of the Web Interface</h4>
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126 <p>Here is the <a href="images/roundup-1.png">Roundup index</a>, the first
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131 <p>In comparison, here is the <a href="images/jitterbug-1.gif">first
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136 eight entries. The boldface on the item descriptions helps,
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138 powerful green header line -- which contains zero bits of
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139 new information.
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141 <p>As another example, Bugzilla presents somewhat more information
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142 than Jitterbug in its <a href="images/bugzilla-4.gif">index view</a>, but
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144 bewildering screens replete with form widgets
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145 (<a href="images/bugzilla-1.gif">one</a>,
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152 is shoved off of the right side of the page.
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156 ><font face="helvetica, arial" color="#c0c0e0"><small
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157 >copyright &copy; by
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158 <a href="http://www.lfw.org/ping/"
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159 ><font color="#c0c0e0">Ka-Ping Yee</font></a>
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160 updated Sun 2 Jul 2000</td><td align=right
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161 ><font face="helvetica, arial" color="#c0c0e0"
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