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fix mail tests
author Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net>
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1 I'm pleased to announce Roundup 0.6.8, a maintenance release which fixes
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2 some bugs:
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4 - existing trackers (ie. live ones) may be used as templates for new
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5 trackers - the TEMPLATE-INFO.txt name entry has the tracker's dir name
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6 appended (so the demo tracker's template name is "classic-demo")
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7 - handle bad multilink input at item creation time better (sf bug 917834)
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8 - make sure email signature starts on a newline (sf bug 919759)
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9 - add line to rego email to help URL detection (sf bug 906247)
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10 - look harder for text/plain in email
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11 - fixed fallback excel writer in rcsv so it has a delimiter
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12 - fixed setup.py's use of listTemplates (!)
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13 - make rdbms serialise() less trusting
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14 - handle Boolean values in history HTML display
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16 If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow
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17 the "Software Upgrade" guidelines given in the maintenance documentation.
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19 Note that the Zope interface still doesn't work - it is fixed in the 0.7
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20 development codebase.
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22 Roundup requires python 2.1.3 or later for correct operation. Python 2.3.1
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23 or later is strongly recommended.
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25 To give Roundup a try, just download (see below), unpack and run::
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27 python demo.py
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29 Source and documentation is available at the website:
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30 http://roundup.sourceforge.net/
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31 Release Info (via download page):
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32 http://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup
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33 Mailing lists - the place to ask questions:
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34 http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=31577
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37 About Roundup
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38 =============
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40 Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with
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41 command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning
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42 design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design
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43 competition.
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45 Note: Ping is not responsible for this project. The contact for this
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46 project is richard@users.sourceforge.net.
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48 Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as
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49 "description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability to:
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51 (a) submit new issues,
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52 (b) find and edit existing issues, and
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53 (c) discuss issues with other participants.
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55 The system will facilitate communication among the participants by
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56 managing discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are
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57 edited. One of the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to
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58 get going. Roundup is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python
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59 2.1+ installation. It doesn't even need to be "installed" to be
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60 operational, though a disutils-based install script is provided.
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62 It comes with two issue tracker templates (a classic bug/feature tracker
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63 and a minimal skeleton) and six database back-ends (anydbm, bsddb, bsddb3,
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64 sqlite, metakit and mysql).
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Roundup Issue Tracker: http://roundup-tracker.org/