Roundup Issue Tracker

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Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web, REST, XML-RPC and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry “Track” design competition.

The current stable version of Roundup is 2.1.0. It is a bug fix and minor feature release for the major 2.0.0 release which added:

Python 2 and Python 3 support

a new REST interface

updates to jinja2 templates including security improvements

Fixes and features in the 2.1.0 release include:

Installation uses setuptools and not distutils.

Mysql backend now uses an index to make sure that key values are not duplicated when two roundup processes run in parallel.

Postgres back end now uses a server side cursor, so large queries won’t consume huge amounts of memory.

Security fixes for jQuery, markdown handling,

Valid class names are documented and enforced. All class names now match [A-z][A-z0-9_]+[A-z_].

Fixes/improvements to jinja2 templates

Fixes for python3 compatibility.

Fix sorting of multilinks in templating code.

Password reset documented in user guide.

More info on the 58 changes can be found in the change note.

For more information on Roundup see the design overview, and all the other documentation. 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 flexibility 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 written said:

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…