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-?? - 0.4.0b2
5 Fixed:
6 . #495392 ] empty nosy -patch
7 . #500574 ] messageid must have format <part1@part2>
8 . fixed some problems with web editing and change detection
9 . mail splitting wasn't detecting responses in the same "section" as quoted
10 text
11 . missed a "from i18n import _" in date.py
12 . #501690 ] MIGRATION.txt incomplete
13 . #502342 ] pipe interface
14 . #502437 ] rogue reactor and unittest
15 . re-enabled dumbdbm when using python >2.1.1 (ie 2.1.2, 2.2)
16 . changed all config accesses so they access either the instance or the
17 config attriubute on the db. This means that all config is obtained from
18 instance_config instead of the mish-mash of classes. This will make
19 switching to a ConfigParser setup easier too, I hope.
20 . #502951 ] adding new properties to old database
23 2002-01-08 - 0.4.0b1
24 Feature:
25 . Added INSTANCE_NAME to configuration - used in web and email to identify
26 the instance.
27 . Added EMAIL_SIGNATURE_POSITION to indicate where to place the roundup
28 signature info in e-mails.
29 . Some more flexibility in the mail gateway and more error handling.
30 . Login now takes you to the page you back to the were denied access to.
31 . Admin user now can has a user index link on their web interface.
32 . We now have basic transaction support. Information is only written to
33 the database when the commit() method is called. Only the anydbm and
34 bsddb3 backends are modified in this way - the bsddb3 backend needs a
35 lot more work anyway...
36 - the CGI and mailgw automatically commit() at the end of processing a
37 single transaction
38 - the admin tool requires an explicit "commit" - it will prompt at exit
39 if there are unsaved changes. A "rollback" removes all changes made
40 during the session (up to the last commit).
41 . Added the "display" command to the admin tool - displays a node's values
42 . Message author's name appears in From: instead of roundup instance name
43 (which still appears in the Reply-To:)
44 . Added a Zope frontend for roundup.
45 . Centralised the python version check code, bumped version to 2.1.1 (really
46 needs to be 2.1.2, but that isn't released yet :)
47 . much better attaching of erroneous messages in the mail gateway
48 . #496356 ] Use threading in messages
49 This adds the tracking of messages by message-id and allows threading
50 using in-reply-to. Most e-mail clients support threading using this
51 feature, and we hope to add support for it to the web gateway.
53 Fixed:
54 . Lots of bugs, thanks Roché and others on the devel mailing list!
55 . login_action and newuser_action return values were being ignored
56 . Woohoo! Found that bloody re-login bug that was killing the mail
57 gateway.
58 . Fixed login/registration forwarding the user to the right page (or not,
59 on a failure)
60 . We now use weakrefs in the Classes to keep the database reference, so
61 the close() method on the database is no longer needed.
62 . #487480 ] roundup-server
63 . #487476 ] INSTALL.txt
64 . #489760 ] [issue] only subject
65 . fixed doc/index.html to include the quoting in the mail alias.
66 . fixed the backends __init__ so we can pydoc the backend modules
67 . web i/f reports "note added" if there are no changes but a note is entered
68 . we were assuming database files created by anydbm had the same name, but
69 this is not the case for dbm. We now perform a much better check _and_
70 cope with the anydbm implementation module changing too!
71 . envelope-from is now set to the roundup-admin and not roundup itself so
72 delivery reports aren't sent to roundup (thanks Patrick Ohly)
73 . #495400 ] entering blanks
74 Values with spaces are now accepted in roundup-admin - check the long help
75 for details.
76 . #496360 ] table width does not work
77 . detectors were being registered multiple times
78 . added tests for mailgw
81 2001-11-23 - 0.3.0
82 Feature:
83 . #467129 ] Lossage when username=e-mail-address
84 . #473123 ] Change message generation for author
85 . MailGW now moves 'resolved' to 'chatting' on receiving e-mail for an issue.
86 . Added Structured Text rendering to htmltemplate, thanks Brad Clements.
87 . Added CGI configuration via env vars (see roundup.cgi for details)
88 . "roundup.cgi" is now installed to "<python-prefix>/share/roundup/cgi-bin"
89 . roundup-admin now accepts abbreviated commands (eg. l = li = lis = list)
90 . roundup-mailgw now supports unix mailbox and POP as sources of mail.
91 . roundup-admin now handles all hyperdb exceptions
92 . users may attach files to issues (and support in ext) through the web now
93 . incorporated patch from Roch'e Compaan implementing attachments in nosy
94 e-mail
95 . added a target version field to the extended issue schema
96 . added dummy hooks for I18N and some preliminary (test) markup of
97 translatable messages
99 Fixed:
100 . Fixed a bug in HTMLTemplate changes.
101 . 'unread' to 'chatting' automagic status change was b0rken.
102 . Anonymous user lockout wasn't working.
103 . roundup-server now works on Windows, thanks Juergen Hermann.
104 . Fixed install documentation, also thanks Juergen Hermann.
105 . Fixed some URL issues in roundup.cgi, again thanks Juergen Hermann.
106 . bug #475347 ] WindowsError still not caught (patch from Juergen Hermann)
107 . bug #474749 ] indentations lost
108 . bug #477104 ] HTML tag error in roundup-server
109 . bug #477107 ] HTTP header problem
110 . bug #477687 ] conforming html
111 . bug #474372 ] Netscape 4.77 do not render Support form
112 . bug #477685 ] base64.decodestring breaks
113 . bug #477837 ] lynx does not like the cookie
114 . bug #477892 ] Password edit doesn't fix login cookie
115 . newuser_action now presents error messages rather than tracebacks.
116 . bug #479511 ] mailgw to pop
117 . bug #479508 ] roundup-admin crash on wrong class
118 . bad error report in hyperdb
119 . roundup.mailgw now handles errors on the set() and create() at the end
120 of processing
121 . roundup.mailgw also handles messages that are passed to it that don't
122 contain a From: line - apparently some POP servers can do this. It punts
123 an error message to the roundup admin.
124 . fixed nosy reaction and author copy handling
125 . errors in nosy reaction will be propogated now (were effectively being
126 squashed)
127 . re-open the database as the author in mail handling
128 . missing "return" in filter_section (thanks Roch'e Compaan)
131 2001-10-23 - 0.3.0 pre 3
132 Feature:
133 . MailGW now moves 'unread' to 'chatting' on receiving e-mail for an issue.
134 . feature #473127: Filenames. I modified the file.index and htmltemplate
135 source so that the filename is used in the link and the creation
136 information is displayed.
137 Admin Tool (roundup-admin):
138 . Interactive mode for running multiple (independant at present) commands.
139 . Tabular display of nodes.
140 . Import and export via colon-separated files.
142 Changed:
143 . re-organised the html templating code. Fixed some bugs, probably
144 introduced some more. Hopefully not too many.
146 Fixed:
147 . Stand-alone server now has a configurable setuid user.
148 . CGI interface wasn't handling checkboxes at all.
149 . Fixed quopri usage in mailgw from bug reports on mailing list.
150 . Remove the "freshen" command from the roundup-admin tool.
151 . Catch errors in login - no username or password supplied.
152 . Fixed editing of password (Password property type) thanks Roch'e Compaan.
153 . Fixed grouping of non-str properties thanks Roch'e Compaan.
154 . bug #473121: The customisation view and filters (CGI interface view
155 customisation section may now be hidden (patch from Roch'e Compaan.)
156 . bug #473122: Issue id sorting (hyperdb sorts strings-that-look-like-numbers
157 as numbers now.
158 . bug #473124: UI inconsistency with Link fields.
159 This also prompted me to fix a fairly long-standing usability issue -
160 that of being able to turn off certain filters.
161 . bug #473125: Paragraph in e-mails
162 . bug #473126: Sender unknown
163 . bug #473130: Nosy list not set correctly
166 2001-10-11 - 0.3.0 pre 2
167 Fixed:
168 . Hyperdatabase was inserting empty strings instead of None for missing
169 property values. This broke a lot of things.
172 2001-10-10 - 0.3.0 pre 1
173 Feature:
174 . roundup-admin create now prompts for property info if none is supplied
175 on the command-line.
176 . hyperdb Class getprops() method may now return only the mutable
177 properties.
178 . CGI interfaces now generate a top-level index of their known instances.
180 Changed:
181 . Login now uses cookies, which makes it a whole lot more flexible. We can
182 now support anonymous user access (read-only, unless there's an
183 "anonymous" user, in which case write access is permitted). Login
184 handling has been moved into cgi_client.Client.main()
185 . The "extended" schema is now the default in roundup init.
186 . The schemas have had their page headings modified to cope with the new
187 login handling. Existing installations should copy the interfaces.py
188 file from the roundup lib directory to their instance home.
189 . Passwords are now encoded by default (except exising databases which
190 will only be encoded when the passwords are changed). The scheme used
191 at the moment is SHA - but the code is flexible enough to take any
192 number of encoding systems.
193 . The roundup-admin tool always operates as the "admin" user now. Database
194 protection should be achieved using file system protections (see the
195 documentation for details.)
197 Fixed:
198 . Incorrectly had a Bizar Software copyright on the cgitb.py module from
199 Ping - has been removed.
200 . Pretty time interval wasn't handling > 1 month properly.
201 . Generation of links to Link/Multilink in indexes. (thanks Hubert Hoegl)
202 . AssignedTo wasn't in the "classic" schema's item page.
203 . Fixed a whole bunch of places in the CGI interface where we should have
204 been returning Not Found instead of throwing an exception.
205 . Fixed a deviation from the spec: trying to modify the 'id' property of
206 an item now throws an exception.
207 . The plain() template function now html-escapes the content.
208 . Change message was stuffing up for multilinks with no key property.
212 --------------
214 2001-08-30 - 0.2.8
215 Fixed:
216 . Wasn't handling unguessable mime types for file uploads.
217 . Missing import in mailgw.
220 2001-08-29 - 0.2.7
221 Feature:
222 . Text searches are now case insensitive. All forms of text search use
223 regular expressions now.
225 Fixed:
226 . Had another 2.1-ism in the unit tests
227 . Made the mail parser a little more robust w.r.t missing Subject:
228 (both thanks Mikhail Sobolev)
229 . Missed some isFooType usages (thanks Mikhail Sobolev for spotting them)
230 . Reverted back to sending change messages to the web editor of a node so
231 that the change note message is actually genrated.
232 . CGI interface wasn't generating correct change messages.
233 . Notes entered during a change are saved to the messages list even if
234 there's no nosy list. No message is generated if there's no nosy list and
235 there's no change note (since it would just duplicates the journal).
236 . Completely removed the bsddb3 module from the tests - will be reinstated
237 when the http://bsddb.sourceforge.net/'s bugs #439959 and #456408 are
238 dealt with. One is fixed in CVS, the other pending.
241 2001-08-08 - 0.2.6
242 Note:
243 . Roundup is now released under the same terms as the Python License.
245 Feature:
246 . Added tests for instance initialisation. No more releasing the software
247 with bugs in roundup.init!
248 . Now bundling unittest with the package so that python 2.0 users can use
249 the tests.
250 . Much better error handling and messages generated by the mail gateway.
252 Fixed:
253 . Implemented correct mail splitting. Added unit tests. Also snips
254 signatures now too.
255 . Bug #447671 - typo in roundup/init.py
256 . Changed date.Date to use regular string formatting instead of strftime -
257 win32 seems to have problems with %T and no hour... or something...
258 . Bug #448484 - now catching correct exception from makedirs.
259 . Instances are now opened by a special function that generates a unique
260 module name for the instances on import time.
263 2001-08-03 - 0.2.5
264 Note:
265 . The bsddb3 module has a bug that renders it non-functional. Users should
266 select the anydbm or bsddb backend instead.
268 Fixed:
269 . Python 2.0 does not contain the unittest module. The setup.py module now
270 checks for unittest before attempting to run the unit tests.
273 2001-08-03 - 0.2.4
274 Features:
275 . Added ability for cgi newblah forms to indicate that the new node
276 should be linked somewhere.
277 . Added time logging and file uploading to the templates.
278 . Added "My Issues" and "My Support" to extended template. Changed "Your
279 Details" to "My Details". Changed the "New Foo" links to "Add Foo".
280 Added links for unassigned support and issues. Generally reorganised and
281 cleanup the header up.
282 . Changed the order of the information in the message generated by web edits.
283 . Extended the range of intervals that are pretty-printed before actual dates
284 are displayed.
285 . Added more BUILD instructions including the "clean" command to force
286 rebuild.
287 . Web edit messages aren't sent to the person who did the edit any more. No
288 message is generated if they are the only person on the nosy list.
289 . Roundupdb now appends "mailing list" information to its messages which
290 include the e-mail address and web interface address. Templates may
291 override this in their db classes to include specific information (support
292 instructions, etc).
294 Fixed:
295 . Argument handling for the roundup-admin find command.
296 . Handling of summary when no note supplied for newblah. Again.
297 . Detection of no form in htmltemplate Field display.
298 . Checklist html template command was setting wrong name.
299 . 2.1-specific gmtime() (no arg) call in roundup.date. (thanks Paul Wright)
300 . mailgw was making naughty assumptions about the schema of the classes it
301 was creating nodes for.
302 . remove the $Foo$ from the HTML files stored in the htmlbase modules.
303 . Instance import now imports the instance using imp.load_module so that
304 we can have instance homes of "roundup" or other existing python package
305 names.
308 2001-07-30 - 0.2.3
309 Big change:
310 . I've split off the support class from the issue class in "extended".
311 Anyone who has any support entries, sorry. It should be possible to
312 write a scipt that moves the entries over pretty easily. If this causes
313 you pain, I'll do so. You'll want to update your instance with the new
314 code in "extended" either way.
316 Features:
317 . Added the unit tests to the start of setup.py so they're run whenever
318 we do anything distutils'y.
319 . Added nicer prompting to the roundup-admin "init" command.
320 . Actually, the roundup-admin code is totally revamped, and has command
321 help and better command-line arg handling.
322 . The cgi_client.Client base class now reflects the structure of "classic"
323 rather than "extended" since "classic" is more of a "base" template.
324 . Added more DB to test. Skips tests where imports fail.
326 Fixed:
327 . One of the tests in test_date had the wrong expected result.
328 . Fixed IssueClass so that superseders links to its classname rather than
329 hard-coded to "issue".
330 . templatebuilder was catching IOError instead of OSError.
331 . The cgi_client newblah method wasn't detecting the __note form field
332 properly.
333 . The History command in htmltemplate didn't handle a new node (None
334 nodeid) properly.
337 2001-07-29 - 0.2.2
338 Features:
339 . Added implementation.txt to the doc directory. Contains implementation
340 notes specific to this implementations of Roundup.
341 . Cleaned up mailgw some (subclass Message for getPart) and added some
342 tests for multipart splitting.
343 . Better checking for html dir in templatebuilder.
344 . Base hyperdb.Class now fakes the "id" property.
345 . Made the classic roundup look more like the original prototype.
346 . Made cgi_client and templating slightly more generic.
347 . Moved some code around in cgi_client allowing for subclassing to change
348 behaviour.
349 . Added the fabricated property "id" to all hyperdb classes.
350 . Cleanup of the link label generation (new method on hyperdb.Class to do
351 it).
353 Fixed:
354 . Everything uses errno module now to check errno values.
355 . New issue form handles lack of note better now.
356 . HTML templating uses section-bar style for index group headers now.
357 . Fixed problem in link display when Link value is None.
358 . Form handling in cgi client wasn't propogating through the previous
359 query elements.
360 . Fixed sort arguments generated for column headings so sorting can be
361 changed now.
364 2001-07-28 - 0.2.1
365 Features:
366 . Added docstring to roundup package so pydoc reports useful information.
367 . Added the roundup 1 software carpentry submission HTML to the doc
368 directory as "overview.html".
370 Fixes:
371 . Fixed bug in init command - templatebuilder was assuming existence of
372 "html" directory in instance home.
373 . Fixed INSTALL.txt to reflect some changes in the installation and test
374 procedure. Whatdya know, "setup.py install" does the script install.
375 There you go...
376 . Fixed some non-string node ids in cgi_client now that the hyperdb is
377 strict about such things.
379 2001-07-26 - 0.2.0
380 Features:
381 . Major reorganisation of code to allow multiple roundup instances and a
382 single, site-packages -based installation. Also allows multiple database
383 back-ends.
384 . Moved the bin/ proggies into the top dir, so that it all works
385 out-of-the-box
386 . Added the "classic" template - a direct implementation of the Roundup
387 spec. Well, as close as we're going to get, anyway.
388 . Added an issue priority of support to "extended"
389 . Added command-line arg handling to roundup-server so it's more useful
390 out-of-the-box.
391 . Added distutils-style installation of "lib" files.
392 . Added some unit tests.
394 Fixes:
395 . Fixed bug in re generation in the filter
396 . Fixed handling of None String property in grouped list headings
397 . Fixed adding new issue with no change note
398 . Fixed values in text input fields which contained quotes (") are now
399 quoted.
400 . Fixed a bug in the hyperdb filter - wrong variable names in the error
401 message.
403 2001-07-19 - 0.1.3
404 . Reldate now takes an argument "pretty" - when true, it pretty-prints the
405 interval generated up to 5 days, then pretty-prints the date of last
406 activity. The issue index and item now use the pretty format.
407 . Classes list for admin user in CGI interface.
408 . Made the view configuration more accessible, neater and more realistic.
409 . Fixed list view grouping handling grouping by a Multilink or String or Link
410 value of None or Date, ... (mind you, sorting by Date???)
411 . Fixed bug in the plain formatter when a Link was None.
412 . Fixed ordering of list view column headings.
413 . Fixed list view column heading sort links - and limited the number of
414 columns to sort by to 2.
415 . Added searching by glob to StringType filtering -
416 ^text - search for text at start of fields
417 text$ - search for text at end of fields
418 ^text$ - exactly match text in fields
419 te*xt - search for text matching "te"<any characters>"xt"
420 te?xt - search for text matching "te"<any one character>"xt"
421 . Added more fields to the issue.filter and issue.index templates
424 2001-07-18 - 0.1.2
425 . Set default index to ?:group=priority&:columns=activity,status,title so
426 the priority column isn't displayed.
427 . Thanks Anthony:
428 . added notes to the README about Python prerequisites
429 . added check to roundup.py, roundup.cgi, server.py and roundup-mailgw.py
430 for python 2+ - and made the file itself parseable by 1.5.2 ;)
431 . python 2.0 didn't have the default args for the time module functions.
432 . better handling of db directory in initDB
433 . Sorting on the extra properties defined by roundupdb classes was broken
434 due to the caching used. May now sort on activity and creation
435 properties, etc.
436 . Set the default index to sort on activity
439 2001-07-18 - 0.1.1
440 . Initial version release with consent of Roundup spec author, Ka-Ping Yee:
441 "Amazing! Nice work. I'll watch for the source code on your website."
443 2001-07-11 - 0.1.0
444 . Needed a bug tracking system. Looked around. Tried to install many
445 Perl-based systems, to no avail. Got tired of waiting for Roundup to be
446 released. Had just finished major product project, so needed something
447 different for a while. Roundup here I come...