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Upgrading to newer versions of Roundup
======================================
-Please read each section carefully and edit your instance home files
+Please read each section carefully and edit your tracker home files
accordingly.
.. contents::
This has been a fairly major revision of Roundup:
1. Brand new, much more powerful, flexible, tasty and nutritious templating.
- Unfortunately, this means all your current templates are useless. Please
- don't hesitate to ask on roundup-users for help (or complete conversions
- if you're completely stuck)!
+ Unfortunately, this means all your current templates are useless. Hopefully
+ the new documentation and examples will be enough to help you make the
+ transition. Please don't hesitate to ask on roundup-users for help (or
+ complete conversions if you're completely stuck)!
2. The database backed got a lot more flexible, allowing Metakit and SQL
- databases! The only SQL database implemented at present is gadfly, but
- others shouldn't be a whole lot more work.
+ databases! The only decent SQL database implemented at present is sqlite,
+ but others shouldn't be a whole lot more work.
3. A brand new, highly flexible and much more robust security system including
a system of Permissions, Roles and Role assignments to users. You may now
define your own Permissions that may be checked in CGI transactions.
4. Journalling has been made less storage-hungry, so has been turned on
by default *except* for author, recipient and nosy link/unlink events. You
- are advised to turn it off in your instances too.
-5. Because of the above changes, the instance configuration has seen some
+ are advised to turn it off in your trackers too.
+5. We've changed the terminology from "instance" to "tracker", to ease the
+ learning curve/impact for new users.
+6. Because of the above changes, the tracker configuration has seen some
major changes. See below for the details.
-Please, *back up your database* before you start the migration process. This
+Please, **back up your database** before you start the migration process. This
is as simple as copying the "db" directory and all its contents from your
-instance to somewhere safe.
+tracker to somewhere safe.
0.5.0 Configuration
-------------------
+First up, rename your ``instance_config.py`` file to just ``config.py``.
+
+Then edit your tracker's ``__init__.py`` module. It'll currently look
+like this::
+
+ from instance_config import *
+ try:
+ from dbinit import *
+ except ImportError:
+ pass # in installdir (probably :)
+ from interfaces import *
+
+and it needs to be::
+
+ import config
+ from dbinit import open, init
+ from interfaces import Client, MailGW
+
Due to the new templating having a top-level ``page`` that defines links for
searching, indexes, adding items etc, the following variables are no longer
used:
- ISSUE_FILTER
The new security implementation will require additions to the dbinit module,
-but also removes the need for the following instance config variables:
+but also removes the need for the following tracker config variables:
- ANONYMOUS_ACCESS
- ANONYMOUS_REGISTER
Role. See the section on customising security in the `customisation
documentation`_ for more information.
+Finally, the following config variables have been renamed to make more sense:
+
+- INSTANCE_HOME -> TRACKER_HOME
+- INSTANCE_NAME -> TRACKER_NAME
+- ISSUE_TRACKER_WEB -> TRACKER_WEB
+- ISSUE_TRACKER_EMAIL -> TRACKER_EMAIL
+
0.5.0 Schema Specification
--------------------------
0.5.0 Database backend changes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-Your select_db module in your instance has changed a fair bit. Where it used
+Your select_db module in your tracker has changed a fair bit. Where it used
to contain::
# WARNING: DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!!!
# WARNING: DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!!!
from roundup.backends.back_anydbm import Database, Class, FileClass, IssueClass
+Yes, I realise the irony of the "DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE" statement :)
Note the addition of the Class, FileClass, IssueClass imports. These are very
important, as they're going to make the next change work too. You now need to
-modify the top of the dbinit module in your instance from::
+modify the top of the dbinit module in your tracker from::
import instance_config
from roundup import roundupdb
'''
pass
+to::
-
-to just::
-
- import instance_config
+ import config
from select_db import Database, Class, FileClass, IssueClass
Yes, remove the Database and IssueClass definitions and those other imports.
They're not needed any more!
+Look for places in dbinit.py where ``instance_config`` is used too, and
+rename them ``config``.
+
0.5.0 Journalling changes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
messageid=String(), inreplyto=String())
Nosy list link event journalling is actually turned off by default now. If you
-want to turn it onn, change to your issue class' nosy list, change its
+want to turn it on, change to your issue class' nosy list, change its
definition from::
issue = IssueClass(db, "issue",
4. Roundup checks that users have appropriate Permissions at appropriate times
(like editing issues).
-Your instance dbinit module's *open* function now has to define any
-Permissions that are specific to your instance, and also the assignment
+Your tracker dbinit module's *open* function now has to define any
+Permissions that are specific to your tracker, and also the assignment
of Permissions to Roles. At the moment, your open function
ends with::
and all other users "User". The ``fixroles.py`` script in the tools directory
will do this. Run it like so (where python is your python 2+ binary)::
- python tools/fixroles.py -i <instance home>
+ python tools/fixroles.py -i <tracker home> fixroles
---------------------------
The CGI interface code was completely reorganised and largely rewritten. The
-end result is that this section of your instance interfaces module will need
+end result is that this section of your tracker interfaces module will need
changing from::
from roundup import mailgw
0.5.0 HTML templating
---------------------
-You'll want to make a backup of your current instance html directory. You
-should then copy the html directory from the Roundup source template that you
-used to create your instance, and modify it according to your local schema
-changes.
+You'll want to make a backup of your current tracker html directory. You
+should then copy the html directory from the Roundup source "classic" template
+and modify it according to your local schema changes.
If you need help with the new templating system, please ask questions on the
roundup-users mailing list (available through the roundup project page on
0.5.0 Detectors
---------------
-The nosy reactor has been updated to handle the instance not having an
-"assignedto" property on issues. You may want to copy it into your instance's
+The nosy reactor has been updated to handle the tracker not having an
+"assignedto" property on issues. You may want to copy it into your tracker's
detectors directory. Chances are you've already fixed it though :)
0.4.2 HTML templating changes
-----------------------------
The link() htmltemplate function now has a "showid" option for links and
-multilinks. When true, it only displays the linked node id as the anchor
+multilinks. When true, it only displays the linked item id as the anchor
text. The link value is displayed as a tooltip using the title anchor
attribute. To use in eg. the superseder field, have something like this::
0.4.0 Configuration
--------------------
-``INSTANCE_NAME`` and ``EMAIL_SIGNATURE_POSITION`` have been added to the
+``TRACKER_NAME`` and ``EMAIL_SIGNATURE_POSITION`` have been added to the
instance_config.py. The simplest solution is to copy the default values
from template in the core source.