1 General Roundup project TODO list. Note that some of these are semi-formed
2 ideas. Those ideas that don't make the cutoff for the next major release are
3 punted automatically into the subsequent major release TODO.
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6 State Component Description
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8 pending example meta/parent bug implementation (feature request #506815)
9 pending example replace the "extended" example with a "help desk" one, and
10 rename "classic" to "bug tracker"
11 pending example script for retrieval of "mbox" archive of all messages
12 pending hyperdb range searching of values (dates in particular).
13 Filter specifies {property: (comparison function, value)}
14 comparison functions: lt, le, eq, ge, gt. eq and
15 [value, value, ...] implies "in"
16 pending hyperdb make creator, creation and activity available pre-commit
17 pending hyperdb migrate "id" property to be Number type
18 pending instance split instance.open() into open() and login()
19 pending mailgw allow commands (feature request #556996)
20 like "help", "dump issue123" (would send all info about
21 issue123, including a digest of all messages, but probably
22 not all files...), "list issue", ...
23 pending mailgw Allow multiple email addresses at one gw with different default
24 classes and property values (possibly through command-line
25 args to the mailgw as invoked in the mail delivery "aliases"
26 file) eg::
28 roundup: "|roundup-mailgw /instances/dev"
29 vmbugs: "|roundup-mailgw /instances/dev component=voicemail"
31 pending project switch to a Roundup instance for Roundup bug/feature tracking
32 pending project have the demo allow anonymous login
33 pending security an LDAP user database implementation
34 pending security authenticate over a secure connection
35 pending security optionally auth with Basic HTTP auth instead of cookies
36 pending security use digital signatures in mailgw
37 pending security submission protection (ok, I've forgotten what this is)
38 pending web I18N
39 pending web Better message summary display (feature request #520244)
40 pending web Navigating around the issues (feature request #559149)
41 pending web Quick help links next to the property labels giving a
42 description of the property. Combine with help for the actual
43 form element too, eg. how to use the nosy list edit box.
44 pending web clicking on a group header should filter for that type of entry
45 pending web re-enable auth by basic http auth
46 pending web search "refinement" - pre-fill the search page with the
47 current search parameters
48 pending web UNIX init.d script for roundup-server
49 pending web rewritten documentation (can come after the beta though so
50 stuff is settled) ... including relevant file names in
51 customisation doc
52 pending web allow multilink selections to select a "none" element to allow
53 people with broken browsers to select nothing?
54 pending dist include the HTML in docs
56 bug web request.url is incorrect in cgi-bin environments
57 bug web need to indicate that generated pages shouldn't be cached
59 done instance rename to "instance" to "tracker"
60 done hyperdb write a backend for gadfly (it's as done as it's going to get)
61 done hyperdb full-text search also search certain String properties
62 done hyperdb further split the *dbm backends from the core code, allowing
63 easier non-dict-like backends (eg metakit, RDB)
64 done hyperdb fix the journal bloat
65 done hyperdb add Boolean and Number types (GM)
66 done hyperdb update design document
67 done hyperdb entire database export and import (incl files)
68 done mailgw better help message (feature request #558562)
69 done security add info from doc/security.txt to design doc
70 done security switch to sessions for web authentication
71 done security implement and use the new logical control mechanisms
72 done web Re-enable link backrefs from messages (feature request #568714)
73 done web have the page layout (header/footer) be templatable
74 done web fixing the templating so it works
75 done web re-work cgi interface to abstract out the explicit "issue"
76 interface
77 done web have index page handle mid-page errors better so header and
78 footer are still visible
79 done web saving of named queries (GM, mangled by RJ :)
80 done web handle "not found", access and item page render errors better
81 done web fix double-submit by having new-item-submit redirect at end
82 done web daemonify roundup-server (fork, logfile, pidfile)
83 done web modify cgitb to display PageTemplate errors better
84 done web have roundup.cgi pick up instance config from the environment
85 done admin have "set" command be applicable to all items in a class, and
86 also be able to unset properties (ie. set to None)
88 reject instance the use of non-Python configuration files (ConfigParser)
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