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-?? - 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 . the mail gateway now responds with an error message when invalid values
11 for arguments are specified for link or mutlilink properties.
12 . modified unit test to check nosy and assignedto when specified as
13 arguments
14 . you can now use the roundup-admin tool pack the database
15 . unit tests for html templating (and re-enabled the listbox field for
16 multilinks)
18 Fixed:
19 . handle attachments with no name (eg tnef)
20 . fixed setting nosy as argument in subject line
21 . fixed back_bsddb so it passed the journal tests
22 . fixed status changes in mail gateway (eg. unread -> chatting)
23 . we'll actually distribute the frontends directory now, as advertised...
24 . handle stripping of "AW:" from subject line
25 . htmltemplate list() wasn't sorting...
28 2002-01-16 - 0.4.0b2
29 Fixed:
30 . #495392 ] empty nosy -patch
31 . #500574 ] messageid must have format <part1@part2>
32 . fixed some problems with web editing and change detection
33 . mail splitting wasn't detecting responses in the same "section" as quoted
34 text
35 . missed a "from i18n import _" in date.py
36 . #501690 ] MIGRATION.txt incomplete
37 . #502342 ] pipe interface
38 . #502437 ] rogue reactor and unittest
39 . re-enabled dumbdbm when using python >2.1.1 (ie 2.1.2, 2.2)
40 . changed all config accesses so they access either the instance or the
41 config attriubute on the db. This means that all config is obtained from
42 instance_config instead of the mish-mash of classes. This will make
43 switching to a ConfigParser setup easier too, I hope.
44 . #502951 ] adding new properties to old database
45 . #502953 ] nosy-like treatment of other multilinks
46 . #503164 ] create and passwords
47 . plain rendering of links in the htmltemplate now generate a hyperlink to
48 the linked node's page.
49 . #503330 ] ANONYMOUS_REGISTER now applies to mail
50 . #503353 ] setting properties in initial email
51 . #502956 ] filtering by multilink not supported
52 . #503340 ] creating issue with [asignedto=p.ohly]
53 . #502949 ] index view for non-issues and redisplay
54 . #503793 ] changing assignedto resets nosy list
55 . lots of date/interval related changes:
56 - more relaxed date format for input
57 - handle None for date/interval properties
60 2002-01-08 - 0.4.0b1
61 Feature:
62 . Added INSTANCE_NAME to configuration - used in web and email to identify
63 the instance.
64 . Added EMAIL_SIGNATURE_POSITION to indicate where to place the roundup
65 signature info in e-mails.
66 . Some more flexibility in the mail gateway and more error handling.
67 . Login now takes you to the page you back to the were denied access to.
68 . Admin user now can has a user index link on their web interface.
69 . We now have basic transaction support. Information is only written to
70 the database when the commit() method is called. Only the anydbm and
71 bsddb3 backends are modified in this way - the bsddb3 backend needs a
72 lot more work anyway...
73 - the CGI and mailgw automatically commit() at the end of processing a
74 single transaction
75 - the admin tool requires an explicit "commit" - it will prompt at exit
76 if there are unsaved changes. A "rollback" removes all changes made
77 during the session (up to the last commit).
78 . Added the "display" command to the admin tool - displays a node's values
79 . Message author's name appears in From: instead of roundup instance name
80 (which still appears in the Reply-To:)
81 . Added a Zope frontend for roundup.
82 . Centralised the python version check code, bumped version to 2.1.1 (really
83 needs to be 2.1.2, but that isn't released yet :)
84 . much better attaching of erroneous messages in the mail gateway
85 . #496356 ] Use threading in messages
86 This adds the tracking of messages by message-id and allows threading
87 using in-reply-to. Most e-mail clients support threading using this
88 feature, and we hope to add support for it to the web gateway.
90 Fixed:
91 . Lots of bugs, thanks Roché and others on the devel mailing list!
92 . login_action and newuser_action return values were being ignored
93 . Woohoo! Found that bloody re-login bug that was killing the mail
94 gateway.
95 . Fixed login/registration forwarding the user to the right page (or not,
96 on a failure)
97 . We now use weakrefs in the Classes to keep the database reference, so
98 the close() method on the database is no longer needed.
99 . #487480 ] roundup-server
100 . #487476 ] INSTALL.txt
101 . #489760 ] [issue] only subject
102 . fixed doc/index.html to include the quoting in the mail alias.
103 . fixed the backends __init__ so we can pydoc the backend modules
104 . web i/f reports "note added" if there are no changes but a note is entered
105 . we were assuming database files created by anydbm had the same name, but
106 this is not the case for dbm. We now perform a much better check _and_
107 cope with the anydbm implementation module changing too!
108 . envelope-from is now set to the roundup-admin and not roundup itself so
109 delivery reports aren't sent to roundup (thanks Patrick Ohly)
110 . #495400 ] entering blanks
111 Values with spaces are now accepted in roundup-admin - check the long help
112 for details.
113 . #496360 ] table width does not work
114 . detectors were being registered multiple times
115 . added tests for mailgw
118 2001-11-23 - 0.3.0
119 Feature:
120 . #467129 ] Lossage when username=e-mail-address
121 . #473123 ] Change message generation for author
122 . MailGW now moves 'resolved' to 'chatting' on receiving e-mail for an issue.
123 . Added Structured Text rendering to htmltemplate, thanks Brad Clements.
124 . Added CGI configuration via env vars (see roundup.cgi for details)
125 . "roundup.cgi" is now installed to "<python-prefix>/share/roundup/cgi-bin"
126 . roundup-admin now accepts abbreviated commands (eg. l = li = lis = list)
127 . roundup-mailgw now supports unix mailbox and POP as sources of mail.
128 . roundup-admin now handles all hyperdb exceptions
129 . users may attach files to issues (and support in ext) through the web now
130 . incorporated patch from Roch'e Compaan implementing attachments in nosy
131 e-mail
132 . added a target version field to the extended issue schema
133 . added dummy hooks for I18N and some preliminary (test) markup of
134 translatable messages
136 Fixed:
137 . Fixed a bug in HTMLTemplate changes.
138 . 'unread' to 'chatting' automagic status change was b0rken.
139 . Anonymous user lockout wasn't working.
140 . roundup-server now works on Windows, thanks Juergen Hermann.
141 . Fixed install documentation, also thanks Juergen Hermann.
142 . Fixed some URL issues in roundup.cgi, again thanks Juergen Hermann.
143 . bug #475347 ] WindowsError still not caught (patch from Juergen Hermann)
144 . bug #474749 ] indentations lost
145 . bug #477104 ] HTML tag error in roundup-server
146 . bug #477107 ] HTTP header problem
147 . bug #477687 ] conforming html
148 . bug #474372 ] Netscape 4.77 do not render Support form
149 . bug #477685 ] base64.decodestring breaks
150 . bug #477837 ] lynx does not like the cookie
151 . bug #477892 ] Password edit doesn't fix login cookie
152 . newuser_action now presents error messages rather than tracebacks.
153 . bug #479511 ] mailgw to pop
154 . bug #479508 ] roundup-admin crash on wrong class
155 . bad error report in hyperdb
156 . roundup.mailgw now handles errors on the set() and create() at the end
157 of processing
158 . roundup.mailgw also handles messages that are passed to it that don't
159 contain a From: line - apparently some POP servers can do this. It punts
160 an error message to the roundup admin.
161 . fixed nosy reaction and author copy handling
162 . errors in nosy reaction will be propogated now (were effectively being
163 squashed)
164 . re-open the database as the author in mail handling
165 . missing "return" in filter_section (thanks Roch'e Compaan)
168 2001-10-23 - 0.3.0 pre 3
169 Feature:
170 . MailGW now moves 'unread' to 'chatting' on receiving e-mail for an issue.
171 . feature #473127: Filenames. I modified the file.index and htmltemplate
172 source so that the filename is used in the link and the creation
173 information is displayed.
174 Admin Tool (roundup-admin):
175 . Interactive mode for running multiple (independant at present) commands.
176 . Tabular display of nodes.
177 . Import and export via colon-separated files.
179 Changed:
180 . re-organised the html templating code. Fixed some bugs, probably
181 introduced some more. Hopefully not too many.
183 Fixed:
184 . Stand-alone server now has a configurable setuid user.
185 . CGI interface wasn't handling checkboxes at all.
186 . Fixed quopri usage in mailgw from bug reports on mailing list.
187 . Remove the "freshen" command from the roundup-admin tool.
188 . Catch errors in login - no username or password supplied.
189 . Fixed editing of password (Password property type) thanks Roch'e Compaan.
190 . Fixed grouping of non-str properties thanks Roch'e Compaan.
191 . bug #473121: The customisation view and filters (CGI interface view
192 customisation section may now be hidden (patch from Roch'e Compaan.)
193 . bug #473122: Issue id sorting (hyperdb sorts strings-that-look-like-numbers
194 as numbers now.
195 . bug #473124: UI inconsistency with Link fields.
196 This also prompted me to fix a fairly long-standing usability issue -
197 that of being able to turn off certain filters.
198 . bug #473125: Paragraph in e-mails
199 . bug #473126: Sender unknown
200 . bug #473130: Nosy list not set correctly
203 2001-10-11 - 0.3.0 pre 2
204 Fixed:
205 . Hyperdatabase was inserting empty strings instead of None for missing
206 property values. This broke a lot of things.
209 2001-10-10 - 0.3.0 pre 1
210 Feature:
211 . roundup-admin create now prompts for property info if none is supplied
212 on the command-line.
213 . hyperdb Class getprops() method may now return only the mutable
214 properties.
215 . CGI interfaces now generate a top-level index of their known instances.
217 Changed:
218 . Login now uses cookies, which makes it a whole lot more flexible. We can
219 now support anonymous user access (read-only, unless there's an
220 "anonymous" user, in which case write access is permitted). Login
221 handling has been moved into cgi_client.Client.main()
222 . The "extended" schema is now the default in roundup init.
223 . The schemas have had their page headings modified to cope with the new
224 login handling. Existing installations should copy the interfaces.py
225 file from the roundup lib directory to their instance home.
226 . Passwords are now encoded by default (except exising databases which
227 will only be encoded when the passwords are changed). The scheme used
228 at the moment is SHA - but the code is flexible enough to take any
229 number of encoding systems.
230 . The roundup-admin tool always operates as the "admin" user now. Database
231 protection should be achieved using file system protections (see the
232 documentation for details.)
234 Fixed:
235 . Incorrectly had a Bizar Software copyright on the cgitb.py module from
236 Ping - has been removed.
237 . Pretty time interval wasn't handling > 1 month properly.
238 . Generation of links to Link/Multilink in indexes. (thanks Hubert Hoegl)
239 . AssignedTo wasn't in the "classic" schema's item page.
240 . Fixed a whole bunch of places in the CGI interface where we should have
241 been returning Not Found instead of throwing an exception.
242 . Fixed a deviation from the spec: trying to modify the 'id' property of
243 an item now throws an exception.
244 . The plain() template function now html-escapes the content.
245 . Change message was stuffing up for multilinks with no key property.
249 --------------
251 2001-08-30 - 0.2.8
252 Fixed:
253 . Wasn't handling unguessable mime types for file uploads.
254 . Missing import in mailgw.
257 2001-08-29 - 0.2.7
258 Feature:
259 . Text searches are now case insensitive. All forms of text search use
260 regular expressions now.
262 Fixed:
263 . Had another 2.1-ism in the unit tests
264 . Made the mail parser a little more robust w.r.t missing Subject:
265 (both thanks Mikhail Sobolev)
266 . Missed some isFooType usages (thanks Mikhail Sobolev for spotting them)
267 . Reverted back to sending change messages to the web editor of a node so
268 that the change note message is actually genrated.
269 . CGI interface wasn't generating correct change messages.
270 . Notes entered during a change are saved to the messages list even if
271 there's no nosy list. No message is generated if there's no nosy list and
272 there's no change note (since it would just duplicates the journal).
273 . Completely removed the bsddb3 module from the tests - will be reinstated
274 when the http://bsddb.sourceforge.net/'s bugs #439959 and #456408 are
275 dealt with. One is fixed in CVS, the other pending.
278 2001-08-08 - 0.2.6
279 Note:
280 . Roundup is now released under the same terms as the Python License.
282 Feature:
283 . Added tests for instance initialisation. No more releasing the software
284 with bugs in roundup.init!
285 . Now bundling unittest with the package so that python 2.0 users can use
286 the tests.
287 . Much better error handling and messages generated by the mail gateway.
289 Fixed:
290 . Implemented correct mail splitting. Added unit tests. Also snips
291 signatures now too.
292 . Bug #447671 - typo in roundup/init.py
293 . Changed date.Date to use regular string formatting instead of strftime -
294 win32 seems to have problems with %T and no hour... or something...
295 . Bug #448484 - now catching correct exception from makedirs.
296 . Instances are now opened by a special function that generates a unique
297 module name for the instances on import time.
300 2001-08-03 - 0.2.5
301 Note:
302 . The bsddb3 module has a bug that renders it non-functional. Users should
303 select the anydbm or bsddb backend instead.
305 Fixed:
306 . Python 2.0 does not contain the unittest module. The setup.py module now
307 checks for unittest before attempting to run the unit tests.
310 2001-08-03 - 0.2.4
311 Features:
312 . Added ability for cgi newblah forms to indicate that the new node
313 should be linked somewhere.
314 . Added time logging and file uploading to the templates.
315 . Added "My Issues" and "My Support" to extended template. Changed "Your
316 Details" to "My Details". Changed the "New Foo" links to "Add Foo".
317 Added links for unassigned support and issues. Generally reorganised and
318 cleanup the header up.
319 . Changed the order of the information in the message generated by web edits.
320 . Extended the range of intervals that are pretty-printed before actual dates
321 are displayed.
322 . Added more BUILD instructions including the "clean" command to force
323 rebuild.
324 . Web edit messages aren't sent to the person who did the edit any more. No
325 message is generated if they are the only person on the nosy list.
326 . Roundupdb now appends "mailing list" information to its messages which
327 include the e-mail address and web interface address. Templates may
328 override this in their db classes to include specific information (support
329 instructions, etc).
331 Fixed:
332 . Argument handling for the roundup-admin find command.
333 . Handling of summary when no note supplied for newblah. Again.
334 . Detection of no form in htmltemplate Field display.
335 . Checklist html template command was setting wrong name.
336 . 2.1-specific gmtime() (no arg) call in roundup.date. (thanks Paul Wright)
337 . mailgw was making naughty assumptions about the schema of the classes it
338 was creating nodes for.
339 . remove the $Foo$ from the HTML files stored in the htmlbase modules.
340 . Instance import now imports the instance using imp.load_module so that
341 we can have instance homes of "roundup" or other existing python package
342 names.
345 2001-07-30 - 0.2.3
346 Big change:
347 . I've split off the support class from the issue class in "extended".
348 Anyone who has any support entries, sorry. It should be possible to
349 write a scipt that moves the entries over pretty easily. If this causes
350 you pain, I'll do so. You'll want to update your instance with the new
351 code in "extended" either way.
353 Features:
354 . Added the unit tests to the start of setup.py so they're run whenever
355 we do anything distutils'y.
356 . Added nicer prompting to the roundup-admin "init" command.
357 . Actually, the roundup-admin code is totally revamped, and has command
358 help and better command-line arg handling.
359 . The cgi_client.Client base class now reflects the structure of "classic"
360 rather than "extended" since "classic" is more of a "base" template.
361 . Added more DB to test. Skips tests where imports fail.
363 Fixed:
364 . One of the tests in test_date had the wrong expected result.
365 . Fixed IssueClass so that superseders links to its classname rather than
366 hard-coded to "issue".
367 . templatebuilder was catching IOError instead of OSError.
368 . The cgi_client newblah method wasn't detecting the __note form field
369 properly.
370 . The History command in htmltemplate didn't handle a new node (None
371 nodeid) properly.
374 2001-07-29 - 0.2.2
375 Features:
376 . Added implementation.txt to the doc directory. Contains implementation
377 notes specific to this implementations of Roundup.
378 . Cleaned up mailgw some (subclass Message for getPart) and added some
379 tests for multipart splitting.
380 . Better checking for html dir in templatebuilder.
381 . Base hyperdb.Class now fakes the "id" property.
382 . Made the classic roundup look more like the original prototype.
383 . Made cgi_client and templating slightly more generic.
384 . Moved some code around in cgi_client allowing for subclassing to change
385 behaviour.
386 . Added the fabricated property "id" to all hyperdb classes.
387 . Cleanup of the link label generation (new method on hyperdb.Class to do
388 it).
390 Fixed:
391 . Everything uses errno module now to check errno values.
392 . New issue form handles lack of note better now.
393 . HTML templating uses section-bar style for index group headers now.
394 . Fixed problem in link display when Link value is None.
395 . Form handling in cgi client wasn't propogating through the previous
396 query elements.
397 . Fixed sort arguments generated for column headings so sorting can be
398 changed now.
401 2001-07-28 - 0.2.1
402 Features:
403 . Added docstring to roundup package so pydoc reports useful information.
404 . Added the roundup 1 software carpentry submission HTML to the doc
405 directory as "overview.html".
407 Fixes:
408 . Fixed bug in init command - templatebuilder was assuming existence of
409 "html" directory in instance home.
410 . Fixed INSTALL.txt to reflect some changes in the installation and test
411 procedure. Whatdya know, "setup.py install" does the script install.
412 There you go...
413 . Fixed some non-string node ids in cgi_client now that the hyperdb is
414 strict about such things.
416 2001-07-26 - 0.2.0
417 Features:
418 . Major reorganisation of code to allow multiple roundup instances and a
419 single, site-packages -based installation. Also allows multiple database
420 back-ends.
421 . Moved the bin/ proggies into the top dir, so that it all works
422 out-of-the-box
423 . Added the "classic" template - a direct implementation of the Roundup
424 spec. Well, as close as we're going to get, anyway.
425 . Added an issue priority of support to "extended"
426 . Added command-line arg handling to roundup-server so it's more useful
427 out-of-the-box.
428 . Added distutils-style installation of "lib" files.
429 . Added some unit tests.
431 Fixes:
432 . Fixed bug in re generation in the filter
433 . Fixed handling of None String property in grouped list headings
434 . Fixed adding new issue with no change note
435 . Fixed values in text input fields which contained quotes (") are now
436 quoted.
437 . Fixed a bug in the hyperdb filter - wrong variable names in the error
438 message.
440 2001-07-19 - 0.1.3
441 . Reldate now takes an argument "pretty" - when true, it pretty-prints the
442 interval generated up to 5 days, then pretty-prints the date of last
443 activity. The issue index and item now use the pretty format.
444 . Classes list for admin user in CGI interface.
445 . Made the view configuration more accessible, neater and more realistic.
446 . Fixed list view grouping handling grouping by a Multilink or String or Link
447 value of None or Date, ... (mind you, sorting by Date???)
448 . Fixed bug in the plain formatter when a Link was None.
449 . Fixed ordering of list view column headings.
450 . Fixed list view column heading sort links - and limited the number of
451 columns to sort by to 2.
452 . Added searching by glob to StringType filtering -
453 ^text - search for text at start of fields
454 text$ - search for text at end of fields
455 ^text$ - exactly match text in fields
456 te*xt - search for text matching "te"<any characters>"xt"
457 te?xt - search for text matching "te"<any one character>"xt"
458 . Added more fields to the issue.filter and issue.index templates
461 2001-07-18 - 0.1.2
462 . Set default index to ?:group=priority&:columns=activity,status,title so
463 the priority column isn't displayed.
464 . Thanks Anthony:
465 . added notes to the README about Python prerequisites
466 . added check to roundup.py, roundup.cgi, server.py and roundup-mailgw.py
467 for python 2+ - and made the file itself parseable by 1.5.2 ;)
468 . python 2.0 didn't have the default args for the time module functions.
469 . better handling of db directory in initDB
470 . Sorting on the extra properties defined by roundupdb classes was broken
471 due to the caching used. May now sort on activity and creation
472 properties, etc.
473 . Set the default index to sort on activity
476 2001-07-18 - 0.1.1
477 . Initial version release with consent of Roundup spec author, Ka-Ping Yee:
478 "Amazing! Nice work. I'll watch for the source code on your website."
480 2001-07-11 - 0.1.0
481 . Needed a bug tracking system. Looked around. Tried to install many
482 Perl-based systems, to no avail. Got tired of waiting for Roundup to be
483 released. Had just finished major product project, so needed something
484 different for a while. Roundup here I come...