1 This file contains the changes to the Roundup system over time. The entries
2 are given with the most recent entry first.
4 2002-01-24 - 0.4.0
5 Feature:
6 . much nicer history display (actualy real handling of property types etc)
7 . journal entries for link and mutlilink properties can be switched on or
8 off
9 . properties in change note are now sorted
10 . you can now use the roundup-admin tool pack the database
12 Fixed:
13 . mailgw checks encoding on first part too.
14 . the mail gateway now responds with an error message when invalid values
15 for arguments are specified for link or mutlilink properties
16 . modified unit test to check nosy and assignedto when specified as arguments
17 . handle attachments with no name (eg tnef)
18 . fixed setting nosy as argument in subject line
19 . fixed back_bsddb so it passed the journal tests
20 . fixed status changes in mail gateway (eg. unread -> chatting)
21 . we'll actually distribute the frontends directory now, as advertised...
22 . handle stripping of "AW:" from subject line
23 . htmltemplate list() wasn't sorting...
24 . unit tests for html templating (and re-enabled the listbox field for
25 multilinks)
26 . allow abbreviation of "help" in admin tool too.
27 . run_tests testReldate_date failed if LANG is 'german'
28 . mailgw failures (unexpected ones) are forwarded to the roundup admin
30 2002-01-16 - 0.4.0b2
31 Fixed:
32 . #495392 ] empty nosy -patch
33 . #500574 ] messageid must have format <part1@part2>
34 . fixed some problems with web editing and change detection
35 . mail splitting wasn't detecting responses in the same "section" as quoted
36 text
37 . missed a "from i18n import _" in date.py
38 . #501690 ] MIGRATION.txt incomplete
39 . #502342 ] pipe interface
40 . #502437 ] rogue reactor and unittest
41 . re-enabled dumbdbm when using python >2.1.1 (ie 2.1.2, 2.2)
42 . changed all config accesses so they access either the instance or the
43 config attriubute on the db. This means that all config is obtained from
44 instance_config instead of the mish-mash of classes. This will make
45 switching to a ConfigParser setup easier too, I hope.
46 . #502951 ] adding new properties to old database
47 . #502953 ] nosy-like treatment of other multilinks
48 . #503164 ] create and passwords
49 . plain rendering of links in the htmltemplate now generate a hyperlink to
50 the linked node's page.
51 . #503330 ] ANONYMOUS_REGISTER now applies to mail
52 . #503353 ] setting properties in initial email
53 . #502956 ] filtering by multilink not supported
54 . #503340 ] creating issue with [asignedto=p.ohly]
55 . #502949 ] index view for non-issues and redisplay
56 . #503793 ] changing assignedto resets nosy list
57 . lots of date/interval related changes:
58 - more relaxed date format for input
59 - handle None for date/interval properties
62 2002-01-08 - 0.4.0b1
63 Feature:
64 . Added INSTANCE_NAME to configuration - used in web and email to identify
65 the instance.
66 . Added EMAIL_SIGNATURE_POSITION to indicate where to place the roundup
67 signature info in e-mails.
68 . Some more flexibility in the mail gateway and more error handling.
69 . Login now takes you to the page you back to the were denied access to.
70 . Admin user now can has a user index link on their web interface.
71 . We now have basic transaction support. Information is only written to
72 the database when the commit() method is called. Only the anydbm and
73 bsddb3 backends are modified in this way - the bsddb3 backend needs a
74 lot more work anyway...
75 - the CGI and mailgw automatically commit() at the end of processing a
76 single transaction
77 - the admin tool requires an explicit "commit" - it will prompt at exit
78 if there are unsaved changes. A "rollback" removes all changes made
79 during the session (up to the last commit).
80 . Added the "display" command to the admin tool - displays a node's values
81 . Message author's name appears in From: instead of roundup instance name
82 (which still appears in the Reply-To:)
83 . Added a Zope frontend for roundup.
84 . Centralised the python version check code, bumped version to 2.1.1 (really
85 needs to be 2.1.2, but that isn't released yet :)
86 . much better attaching of erroneous messages in the mail gateway
87 . #496356 ] Use threading in messages
88 This adds the tracking of messages by message-id and allows threading
89 using in-reply-to. Most e-mail clients support threading using this
90 feature, and we hope to add support for it to the web gateway.
92 Fixed:
93 . Lots of bugs, thanks Roché and others on the devel mailing list!
94 . login_action and newuser_action return values were being ignored
95 . Woohoo! Found that bloody re-login bug that was killing the mail
96 gateway.
97 . Fixed login/registration forwarding the user to the right page (or not,
98 on a failure)
99 . We now use weakrefs in the Classes to keep the database reference, so
100 the close() method on the database is no longer needed.
101 . #487480 ] roundup-server
102 . #487476 ] INSTALL.txt
103 . #489760 ] [issue] only subject
104 . fixed doc/index.html to include the quoting in the mail alias.
105 . fixed the backends __init__ so we can pydoc the backend modules
106 . web i/f reports "note added" if there are no changes but a note is entered
107 . we were assuming database files created by anydbm had the same name, but
108 this is not the case for dbm. We now perform a much better check _and_
109 cope with the anydbm implementation module changing too!
110 . envelope-from is now set to the roundup-admin and not roundup itself so
111 delivery reports aren't sent to roundup (thanks Patrick Ohly)
112 . #495400 ] entering blanks
113 Values with spaces are now accepted in roundup-admin - check the long help
114 for details.
115 . #496360 ] table width does not work
116 . detectors were being registered multiple times
117 . added tests for mailgw
120 2001-11-23 - 0.3.0
121 Feature:
122 . #467129 ] Lossage when username=e-mail-address
123 . #473123 ] Change message generation for author
124 . MailGW now moves 'resolved' to 'chatting' on receiving e-mail for an issue.
125 . Added Structured Text rendering to htmltemplate, thanks Brad Clements.
126 . Added CGI configuration via env vars (see roundup.cgi for details)
127 . "roundup.cgi" is now installed to "<python-prefix>/share/roundup/cgi-bin"
128 . roundup-admin now accepts abbreviated commands (eg. l = li = lis = list)
129 . roundup-mailgw now supports unix mailbox and POP as sources of mail.
130 . roundup-admin now handles all hyperdb exceptions
131 . users may attach files to issues (and support in ext) through the web now
132 . incorporated patch from Roch'e Compaan implementing attachments in nosy
133 e-mail
134 . added a target version field to the extended issue schema
135 . added dummy hooks for I18N and some preliminary (test) markup of
136 translatable messages
138 Fixed:
139 . Fixed a bug in HTMLTemplate changes.
140 . 'unread' to 'chatting' automagic status change was b0rken.
141 . Anonymous user lockout wasn't working.
142 . roundup-server now works on Windows, thanks Juergen Hermann.
143 . Fixed install documentation, also thanks Juergen Hermann.
144 . Fixed some URL issues in roundup.cgi, again thanks Juergen Hermann.
145 . bug #475347 ] WindowsError still not caught (patch from Juergen Hermann)
146 . bug #474749 ] indentations lost
147 . bug #477104 ] HTML tag error in roundup-server
148 . bug #477107 ] HTTP header problem
149 . bug #477687 ] conforming html
150 . bug #474372 ] Netscape 4.77 do not render Support form
151 . bug #477685 ] base64.decodestring breaks
152 . bug #477837 ] lynx does not like the cookie
153 . bug #477892 ] Password edit doesn't fix login cookie
154 . newuser_action now presents error messages rather than tracebacks.
155 . bug #479511 ] mailgw to pop
156 . bug #479508 ] roundup-admin crash on wrong class
157 . bad error report in hyperdb
158 . roundup.mailgw now handles errors on the set() and create() at the end
159 of processing
160 . roundup.mailgw also handles messages that are passed to it that don't
161 contain a From: line - apparently some POP servers can do this. It punts
162 an error message to the roundup admin.
163 . fixed nosy reaction and author copy handling
164 . errors in nosy reaction will be propogated now (were effectively being
165 squashed)
166 . re-open the database as the author in mail handling
167 . missing "return" in filter_section (thanks Roch'e Compaan)
170 2001-10-23 - 0.3.0 pre 3
171 Feature:
172 . MailGW now moves 'unread' to 'chatting' on receiving e-mail for an issue.
173 . feature #473127: Filenames. I modified the file.index and htmltemplate
174 source so that the filename is used in the link and the creation
175 information is displayed.
176 Admin Tool (roundup-admin):
177 . Interactive mode for running multiple (independant at present) commands.
178 . Tabular display of nodes.
179 . Import and export via colon-separated files.
181 Changed:
182 . re-organised the html templating code. Fixed some bugs, probably
183 introduced some more. Hopefully not too many.
185 Fixed:
186 . Stand-alone server now has a configurable setuid user.
187 . CGI interface wasn't handling checkboxes at all.
188 . Fixed quopri usage in mailgw from bug reports on mailing list.
189 . Remove the "freshen" command from the roundup-admin tool.
190 . Catch errors in login - no username or password supplied.
191 . Fixed editing of password (Password property type) thanks Roch'e Compaan.
192 . Fixed grouping of non-str properties thanks Roch'e Compaan.
193 . bug #473121: The customisation view and filters (CGI interface view
194 customisation section may now be hidden (patch from Roch'e Compaan.)
195 . bug #473122: Issue id sorting (hyperdb sorts strings-that-look-like-numbers
196 as numbers now.
197 . bug #473124: UI inconsistency with Link fields.
198 This also prompted me to fix a fairly long-standing usability issue -
199 that of being able to turn off certain filters.
200 . bug #473125: Paragraph in e-mails
201 . bug #473126: Sender unknown
202 . bug #473130: Nosy list not set correctly
205 2001-10-11 - 0.3.0 pre 2
206 Fixed:
207 . Hyperdatabase was inserting empty strings instead of None for missing
208 property values. This broke a lot of things.
211 2001-10-10 - 0.3.0 pre 1
212 Feature:
213 . roundup-admin create now prompts for property info if none is supplied
214 on the command-line.
215 . hyperdb Class getprops() method may now return only the mutable
216 properties.
217 . CGI interfaces now generate a top-level index of their known instances.
219 Changed:
220 . Login now uses cookies, which makes it a whole lot more flexible. We can
221 now support anonymous user access (read-only, unless there's an
222 "anonymous" user, in which case write access is permitted). Login
223 handling has been moved into cgi_client.Client.main()
224 . The "extended" schema is now the default in roundup init.
225 . The schemas have had their page headings modified to cope with the new
226 login handling. Existing installations should copy the interfaces.py
227 file from the roundup lib directory to their instance home.
228 . Passwords are now encoded by default (except exising databases which
229 will only be encoded when the passwords are changed). The scheme used
230 at the moment is SHA - but the code is flexible enough to take any
231 number of encoding systems.
232 . The roundup-admin tool always operates as the "admin" user now. Database
233 protection should be achieved using file system protections (see the
234 documentation for details.)
236 Fixed:
237 . Incorrectly had a Bizar Software copyright on the cgitb.py module from
238 Ping - has been removed.
239 . Pretty time interval wasn't handling > 1 month properly.
240 . Generation of links to Link/Multilink in indexes. (thanks Hubert Hoegl)
241 . AssignedTo wasn't in the "classic" schema's item page.
242 . Fixed a whole bunch of places in the CGI interface where we should have
243 been returning Not Found instead of throwing an exception.
244 . Fixed a deviation from the spec: trying to modify the 'id' property of
245 an item now throws an exception.
246 . The plain() template function now html-escapes the content.
247 . Change message was stuffing up for multilinks with no key property.
251 --------------
253 2001-08-30 - 0.2.8
254 Fixed:
255 . Wasn't handling unguessable mime types for file uploads.
256 . Missing import in mailgw.
259 2001-08-29 - 0.2.7
260 Feature:
261 . Text searches are now case insensitive. All forms of text search use
262 regular expressions now.
264 Fixed:
265 . Had another 2.1-ism in the unit tests
266 . Made the mail parser a little more robust w.r.t missing Subject:
267 (both thanks Mikhail Sobolev)
268 . Missed some isFooType usages (thanks Mikhail Sobolev for spotting them)
269 . Reverted back to sending change messages to the web editor of a node so
270 that the change note message is actually genrated.
271 . CGI interface wasn't generating correct change messages.
272 . Notes entered during a change are saved to the messages list even if
273 there's no nosy list. No message is generated if there's no nosy list and
274 there's no change note (since it would just duplicates the journal).
275 . Completely removed the bsddb3 module from the tests - will be reinstated
276 when the http://bsddb.sourceforge.net/'s bugs #439959 and #456408 are
277 dealt with. One is fixed in CVS, the other pending.
280 2001-08-08 - 0.2.6
281 Note:
282 . Roundup is now released under the same terms as the Python License.
284 Feature:
285 . Added tests for instance initialisation. No more releasing the software
286 with bugs in roundup.init!
287 . Now bundling unittest with the package so that python 2.0 users can use
288 the tests.
289 . Much better error handling and messages generated by the mail gateway.
291 Fixed:
292 . Implemented correct mail splitting. Added unit tests. Also snips
293 signatures now too.
294 . Bug #447671 - typo in roundup/init.py
295 . Changed date.Date to use regular string formatting instead of strftime -
296 win32 seems to have problems with %T and no hour... or something...
297 . Bug #448484 - now catching correct exception from makedirs.
298 . Instances are now opened by a special function that generates a unique
299 module name for the instances on import time.
302 2001-08-03 - 0.2.5
303 Note:
304 . The bsddb3 module has a bug that renders it non-functional. Users should
305 select the anydbm or bsddb backend instead.
307 Fixed:
308 . Python 2.0 does not contain the unittest module. The setup.py module now
309 checks for unittest before attempting to run the unit tests.
312 2001-08-03 - 0.2.4
313 Features:
314 . Added ability for cgi newblah forms to indicate that the new node
315 should be linked somewhere.
316 . Added time logging and file uploading to the templates.
317 . Added "My Issues" and "My Support" to extended template. Changed "Your
318 Details" to "My Details". Changed the "New Foo" links to "Add Foo".
319 Added links for unassigned support and issues. Generally reorganised and
320 cleanup the header up.
321 . Changed the order of the information in the message generated by web edits.
322 . Extended the range of intervals that are pretty-printed before actual dates
323 are displayed.
324 . Added more BUILD instructions including the "clean" command to force
325 rebuild.
326 . Web edit messages aren't sent to the person who did the edit any more. No
327 message is generated if they are the only person on the nosy list.
328 . Roundupdb now appends "mailing list" information to its messages which
329 include the e-mail address and web interface address. Templates may
330 override this in their db classes to include specific information (support
331 instructions, etc).
333 Fixed:
334 . Argument handling for the roundup-admin find command.
335 . Handling of summary when no note supplied for newblah. Again.
336 . Detection of no form in htmltemplate Field display.
337 . Checklist html template command was setting wrong name.
338 . 2.1-specific gmtime() (no arg) call in roundup.date. (thanks Paul Wright)
339 . mailgw was making naughty assumptions about the schema of the classes it
340 was creating nodes for.
341 . remove the $Foo$ from the HTML files stored in the htmlbase modules.
342 . Instance import now imports the instance using imp.load_module so that
343 we can have instance homes of "roundup" or other existing python package
344 names.
347 2001-07-30 - 0.2.3
348 Big change:
349 . I've split off the support class from the issue class in "extended".
350 Anyone who has any support entries, sorry. It should be possible to
351 write a scipt that moves the entries over pretty easily. If this causes
352 you pain, I'll do so. You'll want to update your instance with the new
353 code in "extended" either way.
355 Features:
356 . Added the unit tests to the start of setup.py so they're run whenever
357 we do anything distutils'y.
358 . Added nicer prompting to the roundup-admin "init" command.
359 . Actually, the roundup-admin code is totally revamped, and has command
360 help and better command-line arg handling.
361 . The cgi_client.Client base class now reflects the structure of "classic"
362 rather than "extended" since "classic" is more of a "base" template.
363 . Added more DB to test. Skips tests where imports fail.
365 Fixed:
366 . One of the tests in test_date had the wrong expected result.
367 . Fixed IssueClass so that superseders links to its classname rather than
368 hard-coded to "issue".
369 . templatebuilder was catching IOError instead of OSError.
370 . The cgi_client newblah method wasn't detecting the __note form field
371 properly.
372 . The History command in htmltemplate didn't handle a new node (None
373 nodeid) properly.
376 2001-07-29 - 0.2.2
377 Features:
378 . Added implementation.txt to the doc directory. Contains implementation
379 notes specific to this implementations of Roundup.
380 . Cleaned up mailgw some (subclass Message for getPart) and added some
381 tests for multipart splitting.
382 . Better checking for html dir in templatebuilder.
383 . Base hyperdb.Class now fakes the "id" property.
384 . Made the classic roundup look more like the original prototype.
385 . Made cgi_client and templating slightly more generic.
386 . Moved some code around in cgi_client allowing for subclassing to change
387 behaviour.
388 . Added the fabricated property "id" to all hyperdb classes.
389 . Cleanup of the link label generation (new method on hyperdb.Class to do
390 it).
392 Fixed:
393 . Everything uses errno module now to check errno values.
394 . New issue form handles lack of note better now.
395 . HTML templating uses section-bar style for index group headers now.
396 . Fixed problem in link display when Link value is None.
397 . Form handling in cgi client wasn't propogating through the previous
398 query elements.
399 . Fixed sort arguments generated for column headings so sorting can be
400 changed now.
403 2001-07-28 - 0.2.1
404 Features:
405 . Added docstring to roundup package so pydoc reports useful information.
406 . Added the roundup 1 software carpentry submission HTML to the doc
407 directory as "overview.html".
409 Fixes:
410 . Fixed bug in init command - templatebuilder was assuming existence of
411 "html" directory in instance home.
412 . Fixed INSTALL.txt to reflect some changes in the installation and test
413 procedure. Whatdya know, "setup.py install" does the script install.
414 There you go...
415 . Fixed some non-string node ids in cgi_client now that the hyperdb is
416 strict about such things.
418 2001-07-26 - 0.2.0
419 Features:
420 . Major reorganisation of code to allow multiple roundup instances and a
421 single, site-packages -based installation. Also allows multiple database
422 back-ends.
423 . Moved the bin/ proggies into the top dir, so that it all works
424 out-of-the-box
425 . Added the "classic" template - a direct implementation of the Roundup
426 spec. Well, as close as we're going to get, anyway.
427 . Added an issue priority of support to "extended"
428 . Added command-line arg handling to roundup-server so it's more useful
429 out-of-the-box.
430 . Added distutils-style installation of "lib" files.
431 . Added some unit tests.
433 Fixes:
434 . Fixed bug in re generation in the filter
435 . Fixed handling of None String property in grouped list headings
436 . Fixed adding new issue with no change note
437 . Fixed values in text input fields which contained quotes (") are now
438 quoted.
439 . Fixed a bug in the hyperdb filter - wrong variable names in the error
440 message.
442 2001-07-19 - 0.1.3
443 . Reldate now takes an argument "pretty" - when true, it pretty-prints the
444 interval generated up to 5 days, then pretty-prints the date of last
445 activity. The issue index and item now use the pretty format.
446 . Classes list for admin user in CGI interface.
447 . Made the view configuration more accessible, neater and more realistic.
448 . Fixed list view grouping handling grouping by a Multilink or String or Link
449 value of None or Date, ... (mind you, sorting by Date???)
450 . Fixed bug in the plain formatter when a Link was None.
451 . Fixed ordering of list view column headings.
452 . Fixed list view column heading sort links - and limited the number of
453 columns to sort by to 2.
454 . Added searching by glob to StringType filtering -
455 ^text - search for text at start of fields
456 text$ - search for text at end of fields
457 ^text$ - exactly match text in fields
458 te*xt - search for text matching "te"<any characters>"xt"
459 te?xt - search for text matching "te"<any one character>"xt"
460 . Added more fields to the issue.filter and issue.index templates
463 2001-07-18 - 0.1.2
464 . Set default index to ?:group=priority&:columns=activity,status,title so
465 the priority column isn't displayed.
466 . Thanks Anthony:
467 . added notes to the README about Python prerequisites
468 . added check to roundup.py, roundup.cgi, server.py and roundup-mailgw.py
469 for python 2+ - and made the file itself parseable by 1.5.2 ;)
470 . python 2.0 didn't have the default args for the time module functions.
471 . better handling of db directory in initDB
472 . Sorting on the extra properties defined by roundupdb classes was broken
473 due to the caching used. May now sort on activity and creation
474 properties, etc.
475 . Set the default index to sort on activity
478 2001-07-18 - 0.1.1
479 . Initial version release with consent of Roundup spec author, Ka-Ping Yee:
480 "Amazing! Nice work. I'll watch for the source code on your website."
482 2001-07-11 - 0.1.0
483 . Needed a bug tracking system. Looked around. Tried to install many
484 Perl-based systems, to no avail. Got tired of waiting for Roundup to be
485 released. Had just finished major product project, so needed something
486 different for a while. Roundup here I come...