issue2551182 - ... allow loading values from external file. flake8 cleanups Secrets (passwords, secrets) can specify a file using file:// or file:///. The first line of the file is used as the secret. This allows committing config.ini to a VCS. Following settings are changed: [tracker] secret_key [tracker] jwt_secret [rdbms] password [mail] password details: in roundup/configuration.py: Defined SecretMandatoryOptions and SecretNullableOptions. Converted all secret keys and password to one of the above. Also if [mail] username is defined but [mail] password is not it throws an error at load. Cleaned up a couple of methods whose call signature included: def ...(..., settings={}): settings=None and it is set to empty dict inside the method. Also replace exception.message with str(exception) for python3 compatibility. in test/test_config: changed munge_configini to support changing only within a section, replacing keyword text.

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PostgreSQL/psycopg Backend
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This are notes about PostqreSQL backend based on the psycopg adapter for
Roundup issue tracker.

Prerequisites
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To use PostgreSQL as backend for storing roundup data, you should
additionally install:

1. PostgreSQL 8.x or higher - https://www.postgresql.org/

2. The psycopg python interface to PostgreSQL:

     https://www.psycopg.org/


Running the PostgreSQL unit tests
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The user that you're running the tests as will need to be able to access
the postgresql database on the local machine and create and drop
databases. See the config values in 'test/db_test_base.py' 
about which database connection, name and user will be used.


Credit
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The postgresql backend was originally submitted by Federico Di Gregorio
<fog@initd.org>