General Roundup project TODO list. Note that some of these are semi-formed ideas. Those ideas that don't make the cutoff for the next major release are punted automatically into the subsequent major release TODO. State Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ pending example: meta/parent bug implementation (feature request #506815) pending example: replace the "extended" example with a "help desk" one, and rename "classic" to "bug tracker" pending example: script for retrieval of "mbox" archive of all messages pending hyperdb: range searching of values (dates in particular) - filter specifies {property: (comparison function, value)} comparison functions: lt, le, eq, ge, gt. eq and [value, value, ...] implies "in" pending hyperdb: make creator, creation and activity available pre-commit pending hyperdb: migrate "id" property to be Number type pending instance: including much simpler upgrade path and the use of non-Python configuration files (ConfigParser) pending instance: split instance.open() into open() and login() pending instance: rename to "instance" to "tracker" pending mailgw: allow commands (feature request #556996) like "help", "dump issue123" (would send all info about issue123, including a digest of all messages, but probably not all files...), "list issue", ... pending mailgw: Allow multiple email addresses at one gw with different default classes and property values (possibly through command-line args to the mailgw as invoked in the mail delivery "aliases" file) eg: roundup: "|roundup-mailgw /instances/dev" vmbugs: "|roundup-mailgw /instances/dev component=voicemail" pending project: switch to a Roundup instance for Roundup bug/feature tracking pending project: have the demo allow anonymous login pending security: at least an LDAP user database implementation pending security: authenticate over a secure connection pending security: use digital signatures in mailgw pending security: submission protection pending web: I18N pending web: Better message summary display (feature request #520244) pending web: Navigating around the issues (feature request #559149) pending web: Quick help links next to the property labels giving a description of the property. Combine with help for the actual form element too, eg. how to use the nosy list edit box. pending web: clicking on a group header should filter for that type of entry pending web: re-enable auth by basic http auth New templating TODO: . generic class editing . classhelp . query saving - add ":queryname" to search form submission, and handle it in search action - ?add a drop-down on search page with all queries that fills form with each query's values? . search "refinement" (pre-fill the search page with the current search parameters) ongoing: any bugs done web: Re-enable link backrefs from messages (feature request #568714) (RJ) done web: have the page layout (header/footer) be templatable (RJ) done web: fixing the templating so it works (RJ) done web: re-work cgi interface to abstract out the explicit "issue" interface (RJ) done web: have index page handle mid-page errors better so header and footer are still visible (RJ) done hyperdb: write a backend for gadfly (it's as done as it's going to get) done hyperdb: full-text search also search certain String properties (RJ) done hyperdb: further split the *dbm backends from the core code, allowing easier non-dict-like backends (eg metakit, RDB) (RJ) done hyperdb: fix the journal bloat (RJ) done hyperdb: add Boolean and Number types (GM) done hyperdb: update design document (RJ) done hyperdb: entire database export and import (incl files) (RJ) done mailgw: better help message (feature request #558562) (RJ) done security: add info from doc/security.txt to design doc (RJ) done security: switch to sessions for web authentication (RJ) done security: implement and use the new logical control mechanisms done web: saving of named queries (GM) done web: handle "not found", access and item page render errors better (RJ) done web: fix double-submit by having new-item-submit redirect at end (RJ)