Roundup
Roundup is a simple-to-use and install issue-tracking system
with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the
design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track"
design competition.
Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties
such as "description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability
to:
(a) submit new issues,
(b) find and edit existing issues, and
(c) discuss issues with other participants.
The system will facilitate communication among the
participants by managing discussions and notifying interested parties
when issues are edited. One of the major design goals for Roundup that
it be simple to get going. Roundup is therefore usable "out of the box"
with any python 2.3+ (but not 3+) installation. It doesn't even need to
be "installed" to be operational, though an install script is provided.
It comes with two issue tracker templates (a classic
bug/feature tracker and a minimal skeleton) and four database back-ends
(anydbm, sqlite, mysql and postgresql).
Features include:
- Simple to use
- Accessible through the web, email, command-line or Python
programs
- Track bugs, features, user feedback, sales opportunities,
milestones
- Automatically keeps a full history of changes to issues
with configurable verbosity and easy access to information about who
created or last modified any item in the database
- Issues have their own mini mailing list (nosy list)
- Users may sign themselves up, there may be automatic
signup for incoming email and users may handle their own password reset
requests
- Highly configurable
- Fast and scalable
- Database indexes are automatically added for those
backends that
support them (SQLite,
MySQL
and PostgreSQL)
- Simple to install
- Runs as a daemon process, CGI script[6] or alternatively
using mod_python
- An authorization system, based on roles (of users), classes
and objects
- Web interface:
- Fully editable interfaces for listing and display of items
- Extendable to include wizards, parent/meta bug displays
- Differentiates between anonymous, known and admin users
- Authentication of user registration and user-driven
password resetting using email and one time keys
- Searching may be performed using many constraints,
including a full-text search of messages attached to issues
- File attachments (added through the web or email) are
served up with the correct content-type and filename
- Email
change messages generated by roundup appear to be sent by the person
who made the change, but responses will go back through the nosy list
by default
- Flexible access control built around Permissions and
Roles with assigned Permissions
- Generates valid HTML4 or XHTML
- Detects concurrent user changes
- Saving and editing of user-defined queries which may
optionally be shared with other users
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