Roundup Issue Tracker
=====================

.. pypi-release:: roundup
   :prefix: Download
   :class: note

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.

The current experimental version is `2.0.0beta1
<https://pypi.org/project/roundup/2.0.0beta1/>`_ which has `its own
set of docs`_. Read the :doc:`announcement for the new features
<docs/announcement>`. These features include:

   * Python 2 and Python 3 support
   * a new REST interface

The current stable version of Roundup is 1.6.1 which has quite a
comprehensive :doc:`feature set <docs/features>`.  For more
information see the :doc:`design overview <docs/design>`, and all the
other :doc:`documentation <docs>`. Roundup has been deployed for:

    * bug tracking and TODO list management (the classic installation)
    * customer help desk support (with a wizard for the phone answerers, linking to networking, 
      system and development issue trackers)
    * issue management for IETF working groups
    * sales lead tracking
    * conference paper submission and double-blind referee management
    * weblogging (well, almost :) 

...and so on. It's been designed with :doc:`flexibility
<docs/customizing>` in mind - it's not just another bug
tracker. Roundup ships with a *demo tracker* to play with - after
you've unpacked the source, just run "python demo.py" and load up the
URL it prints out!

Roundup was originally released as version 0.1.1 in late August, 2001. The first `change note`_ I wrote says:

    Needed a bug tracking system. Looked around. Tried to install many Perl-based systems, to no avail.
    Got tired of waiting for Roundup to be released. Had just finished major product project, so needed
    something different for a while. Roundup here I come... 

.. _`download`: https://pypi.org/project/roundup/
.. _`change note`: https://sourceforge.net/p/roundup/code/ci/tip/tree/CHANGES.txt
.. _`its own set of docs`: http://www.roundup-tracker.org/dev-docs/docs.html