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author Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
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1 I'm proud to release version 1.4.14 of Roundup which includes a security
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2 fix and some other fixes:
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3
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4 Features:
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5 - Preparations for getting 2to3 work, not completed yet. (Richard Jones)
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7 Fixed:
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8 - User input not escaped when a bad template name is supplied (thanks
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9 Benjamin Pollack)
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10 - The email for the first message on an issue was having its In-Reply-To
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11 set to itself (thanks Eric Kow)
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12 - Handle multiple @action values from broken trackers.
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13 - Accept single-character subject lines
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14 - xmlrpc handling of unicode characters and binary values, see
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15 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bug-tracking.roundup.user/10040
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16 thanks to Hauke Duden for reporting these.
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17 - frontends/roundup.cgi got out of sync with the roundup.cgi.Client API
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18 - Default to "text/plain" if no Content-Type header is present in email
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19 (thanks Hauke Duden)
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20 - Small documentation update regarding debugging aids (Bernhard Reiter)
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21 - Indexer Xapian, made Xapian 1.2 compatible. Needs at least Xapian 1.0.0 now.
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22 (Bernhard Reiter; Thanks to Olly Betts for providing the patch Issue2550647.)
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24 If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow
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25 the "Software Upgrade" guidelines given in the maintenance documentation.
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27 Roundup requires python 2.3 or later (but not 3+) for correct operation.
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29 To give Roundup a try, just download (see below), unpack and run::
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31 roundup-demo
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33 Release info and download page:
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34 http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/roundup
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35 Source and documentation is available at the website:
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36 http://roundup.sourceforge.net/
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37 Mailing lists - the place to ask questions:
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38 http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=31577
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41 About Roundup
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42 =============
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44 Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with
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45 command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design
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46 from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition.
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48 Note: Ping is not responsible for this project. The contact for this
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49 project is richard@users.sourceforge.net.
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51 Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as
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52 "description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability to:
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54 (a) submit new issues,
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55 (b) find and edit existing issues, and
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56 (c) discuss issues with other participants.
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58 The system will facilitate communication among the participants by managing
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59 discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are edited. One of
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60 the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to get going. Roundup
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61 is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python 2.3+ (but not 3+)
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62 installation. It doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational,
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63 though an install script is provided.
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65 It comes with two issue tracker templates (a classic bug/feature tracker and
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66 a minimal skeleton) and four database back-ends (anydbm, sqlite, mysql
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67 and postgresql).
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Roundup Issue Tracker: http://roundup-tracker.org/