1 This file contains the changes to the Roundup system over time. The entries
2 are given with the most recent entry first.
4 2002-03-?? - 0.4.1
5 Feature:
6 . use blobfiles in back_anydbm which is used in back_bsddb.
7 change test_db as dirlist does not work for subdirectories.
8 ATTENTION: blobfiles now creates subdirectories for files.
9 . add module blobfiles in backends with file access functions.
10 . roundup db catch only IOError in getfile.
11 . roundup db catches retrieving not existing files.
12 . #503204 ] mailgw needs a default class
13 - partially done - the setting of additional properties can wait for a
14 better configuration system.
15 . Alternate email addresses are now available for users. See the MIGRATION
16 file for info on how to activate the feature.
17 . #511168 ] Web interface: Adding new products
18 Classes that don't provide template html get a default edit interface now:
19 - access using the admin "class list" interface
20 - limited to admin-only
21 - requires the csv module from object-craft (url given if it's missing)
22 . Added popup help for classes using the classhelp html template function.
23 - add <display call="classhelp('priority', 'id,name,description')">
24 to an item page, and it generates a link to a popup window which displays
25 the id, name and description for the priority class. The description
26 field won't exist in most installations, but it will be added to the
27 default templates.
28 . #517734 ] web header customisation is obscure
29 . All messages sent to the nosy list are now encoded as
30 quoted-printable before they are sent.
32 Fixed:
33 . Clean up mail handling, multipart handling.
34 . respect encodings in non multipart messages.
35 . makeHtmlBase: re.sub under python 2.2 did not replace '.', string.replace
36 does it.
37 . preamble in tepmlateBuilder mentioned htmldata
38 . mailgw checks encoding on first part too.
39 . #511586 ] unittest FAIL: testReldate_date
40 . Added a uniquely Roundup header to email, "X-Roundup-Name"
41 . All forms now have "double-submit" protection when Javascript is enabled
42 on the client-side.
43 . #516883 ] mail interface + ANONYMOUS_REGISTER
44 . #516854 ] "My Issues" and redisplay
45 . #517906 ] Attribute order in "View customisation"
46 . #514854 ] History: "User" is always ticket creator
47 . wasn't handling cvs parser feeding correctly
48 . fixed some problems in date calculations (calendar.py doesn't handle over-
49 and under-flow). Also, hour/minute/second intervals may now be more than
50 99 each.
51 . #527416 ] roundup-admin uses undefined value
52 . #527503 ] unfriendly init blowup when parent dir
53 (also handles UsageError correctly now in init)
54 . #524129 ] roundup-admin gets python path wrong
57 2002-01-24 - 0.4.0
58 Feature:
59 . much nicer history display (actualy real handling of property types etc)
60 . journal entries for link and mutlilink properties can be switched on or
61 off
62 . properties in change note are now sorted
63 . you can now use the roundup-admin tool pack the database
65 Fixed:
66 . the mail gateway now responds with an error message when invalid values
67 for arguments are specified for link or mutlilink properties
68 . modified unit test to check nosy and assignedto when specified as arguments
69 . handle attachments with no name (eg tnef)
70 . fixed setting nosy as argument in subject line
71 . fixed back_bsddb so it passed the journal tests
72 . fixed status changes in mail gateway (eg. unread -> chatting)
73 . we'll actually distribute the frontends directory now, as advertised...
74 . handle stripping of "AW:" from subject line
75 . htmltemplate list() wasn't sorting...
76 . unit tests for html templating (and re-enabled the listbox field for
77 multilinks)
78 . allow abbreviation of "help" in admin tool too.
79 . run_tests testReldate_date failed if LANG is 'german'
80 . mailgw failures (unexpected ones) are forwarded to the roundup admin
83 2002-01-16 - 0.4.0b2
84 Fixed:
85 . #495392 ] empty nosy -patch
86 . #500574 ] messageid must have format <part1@part2>
87 . fixed some problems with web editing and change detection
88 . mail splitting wasn't detecting responses in the same "section" as quoted
89 text
90 . missed a "from i18n import _" in date.py
91 . #501690 ] MIGRATION.txt incomplete
92 . #502342 ] pipe interface
93 . #502437 ] rogue reactor and unittest
94 . re-enabled dumbdbm when using python >2.1.1 (ie 2.1.2, 2.2)
95 . changed all config accesses so they access either the instance or the
96 config attriubute on the db. This means that all config is obtained from
97 instance_config instead of the mish-mash of classes. This will make
98 switching to a ConfigParser setup easier too, I hope.
99 . #502951 ] adding new properties to old database
100 . #502953 ] nosy-like treatment of other multilinks
101 . #503164 ] create and passwords
102 . plain rendering of links in the htmltemplate now generate a hyperlink to
103 the linked node's page.
104 . #503330 ] ANONYMOUS_REGISTER now applies to mail
105 . #503353 ] setting properties in initial email
106 . #502956 ] filtering by multilink not supported
107 . #503340 ] creating issue with [asignedto=p.ohly]
108 . #502949 ] index view for non-issues and redisplay
109 . #503793 ] changing assignedto resets nosy list
110 . lots of date/interval related changes:
111 - more relaxed date format for input
112 - handle None for date/interval properties
115 2002-01-08 - 0.4.0b1
116 Feature:
117 . Added INSTANCE_NAME to configuration - used in web and email to identify
118 the instance.
119 . Added EMAIL_SIGNATURE_POSITION to indicate where to place the roundup
120 signature info in e-mails.
121 . Some more flexibility in the mail gateway and more error handling.
122 . Login now takes you to the page you back to the were denied access to.
123 . Admin user now can has a user index link on their web interface.
124 . We now have basic transaction support. Information is only written to
125 the database when the commit() method is called. Only the anydbm and
126 bsddb3 backends are modified in this way - the bsddb3 backend needs a
127 lot more work anyway...
128 - the CGI and mailgw automatically commit() at the end of processing a
129 single transaction
130 - the admin tool requires an explicit "commit" - it will prompt at exit
131 if there are unsaved changes. A "rollback" removes all changes made
132 during the session (up to the last commit).
133 . Added the "display" command to the admin tool - displays a node's values
134 . Message author's name appears in From: instead of roundup instance name
135 (which still appears in the Reply-To:)
136 . Added a Zope frontend for roundup.
137 . Centralised the python version check code, bumped version to 2.1.1 (really
138 needs to be 2.1.2, but that isn't released yet :)
139 . much better attaching of erroneous messages in the mail gateway
140 . #496356 ] Use threading in messages
141 This adds the tracking of messages by message-id and allows threading
142 using in-reply-to. Most e-mail clients support threading using this
143 feature, and we hope to add support for it to the web gateway.
145 Fixed:
146 . Lots of bugs, thanks Roché and others on the devel mailing list!
147 . login_action and newuser_action return values were being ignored
148 . Woohoo! Found that bloody re-login bug that was killing the mail
149 gateway.
150 . Fixed login/registration forwarding the user to the right page (or not,
151 on a failure)
152 . We now use weakrefs in the Classes to keep the database reference, so
153 the close() method on the database is no longer needed.
154 . #487480 ] roundup-server
155 . #487476 ] INSTALL.txt
156 . #489760 ] [issue] only subject
157 . fixed doc/index.html to include the quoting in the mail alias.
158 . fixed the backends __init__ so we can pydoc the backend modules
159 . web i/f reports "note added" if there are no changes but a note is entered
160 . we were assuming database files created by anydbm had the same name, but
161 this is not the case for dbm. We now perform a much better check _and_
162 cope with the anydbm implementation module changing too!
163 . envelope-from is now set to the roundup-admin and not roundup itself so
164 delivery reports aren't sent to roundup (thanks Patrick Ohly)
165 . #495400 ] entering blanks
166 Values with spaces are now accepted in roundup-admin - check the long help
167 for details.
168 . #496360 ] table width does not work
169 . detectors were being registered multiple times
170 . added tests for mailgw
173 2001-11-23 - 0.3.0
174 Feature:
175 . #467129 ] Lossage when username=e-mail-address
176 . #473123 ] Change message generation for author
177 . MailGW now moves 'resolved' to 'chatting' on receiving e-mail for an issue.
178 . Added Structured Text rendering to htmltemplate, thanks Brad Clements.
179 . Added CGI configuration via env vars (see roundup.cgi for details)
180 . "roundup.cgi" is now installed to "<python-prefix>/share/roundup/cgi-bin"
181 . roundup-admin now accepts abbreviated commands (eg. l = li = lis = list)
182 . roundup-mailgw now supports unix mailbox and POP as sources of mail.
183 . roundup-admin now handles all hyperdb exceptions
184 . users may attach files to issues (and support in ext) through the web now
185 . incorporated patch from Roch'e Compaan implementing attachments in nosy
186 e-mail
187 . added a target version field to the extended issue schema
188 . added dummy hooks for I18N and some preliminary (test) markup of
189 translatable messages
191 Fixed:
192 . Fixed a bug in HTMLTemplate changes.
193 . 'unread' to 'chatting' automagic status change was b0rken.
194 . Anonymous user lockout wasn't working.
195 . roundup-server now works on Windows, thanks Juergen Hermann.
196 . Fixed install documentation, also thanks Juergen Hermann.
197 . Fixed some URL issues in roundup.cgi, again thanks Juergen Hermann.
198 . bug #475347 ] WindowsError still not caught (patch from Juergen Hermann)
199 . bug #474749 ] indentations lost
200 . bug #477104 ] HTML tag error in roundup-server
201 . bug #477107 ] HTTP header problem
202 . bug #477687 ] conforming html
203 . bug #474372 ] Netscape 4.77 do not render Support form
204 . bug #477685 ] base64.decodestring breaks
205 . bug #477837 ] lynx does not like the cookie
206 . bug #477892 ] Password edit doesn't fix login cookie
207 . newuser_action now presents error messages rather than tracebacks.
208 . bug #479511 ] mailgw to pop
209 . bug #479508 ] roundup-admin crash on wrong class
210 . bad error report in hyperdb
211 . roundup.mailgw now handles errors on the set() and create() at the end
212 of processing
213 . roundup.mailgw also handles messages that are passed to it that don't
214 contain a From: line - apparently some POP servers can do this. It punts
215 an error message to the roundup admin.
216 . fixed nosy reaction and author copy handling
217 . errors in nosy reaction will be propogated now (were effectively being
218 squashed)
219 . re-open the database as the author in mail handling
220 . missing "return" in filter_section (thanks Roch'e Compaan)
223 2001-10-23 - 0.3.0 pre 3
224 Feature:
225 . MailGW now moves 'unread' to 'chatting' on receiving e-mail for an issue.
226 . feature #473127: Filenames. I modified the file.index and htmltemplate
227 source so that the filename is used in the link and the creation
228 information is displayed.
229 Admin Tool (roundup-admin):
230 . Interactive mode for running multiple (independant at present) commands.
231 . Tabular display of nodes.
232 . Import and export via colon-separated files.
234 Changed:
235 . re-organised the html templating code. Fixed some bugs, probably
236 introduced some more. Hopefully not too many.
238 Fixed:
239 . Stand-alone server now has a configurable setuid user.
240 . CGI interface wasn't handling checkboxes at all.
241 . Fixed quopri usage in mailgw from bug reports on mailing list.
242 . Remove the "freshen" command from the roundup-admin tool.
243 . Catch errors in login - no username or password supplied.
244 . Fixed editing of password (Password property type) thanks Roch'e Compaan.
245 . Fixed grouping of non-str properties thanks Roch'e Compaan.
246 . bug #473121: The customisation view and filters (CGI interface view
247 customisation section may now be hidden (patch from Roch'e Compaan.)
248 . bug #473122: Issue id sorting (hyperdb sorts strings-that-look-like-numbers
249 as numbers now.
250 . bug #473124: UI inconsistency with Link fields.
251 This also prompted me to fix a fairly long-standing usability issue -
252 that of being able to turn off certain filters.
253 . bug #473125: Paragraph in e-mails
254 . bug #473126: Sender unknown
255 . bug #473130: Nosy list not set correctly
258 2001-10-11 - 0.3.0 pre 2
259 Fixed:
260 . Hyperdatabase was inserting empty strings instead of None for missing
261 property values. This broke a lot of things.
264 2001-10-10 - 0.3.0 pre 1
265 Feature:
266 . roundup-admin create now prompts for property info if none is supplied
267 on the command-line.
268 . hyperdb Class getprops() method may now return only the mutable
269 properties.
270 . CGI interfaces now generate a top-level index of their known instances.
272 Changed:
273 . Login now uses cookies, which makes it a whole lot more flexible. We can
274 now support anonymous user access (read-only, unless there's an
275 "anonymous" user, in which case write access is permitted). Login
276 handling has been moved into cgi_client.Client.main()
277 . The "extended" schema is now the default in roundup init.
278 . The schemas have had their page headings modified to cope with the new
279 login handling. Existing installations should copy the interfaces.py
280 file from the roundup lib directory to their instance home.
281 . Passwords are now encoded by default (except exising databases which
282 will only be encoded when the passwords are changed). The scheme used
283 at the moment is SHA - but the code is flexible enough to take any
284 number of encoding systems.
285 . The roundup-admin tool always operates as the "admin" user now. Database
286 protection should be achieved using file system protections (see the
287 documentation for details.)
289 Fixed:
290 . Incorrectly had a Bizar Software copyright on the cgitb.py module from
291 Ping - has been removed.
292 . Pretty time interval wasn't handling > 1 month properly.
293 . Generation of links to Link/Multilink in indexes. (thanks Hubert Hoegl)
294 . AssignedTo wasn't in the "classic" schema's item page.
295 . Fixed a whole bunch of places in the CGI interface where we should have
296 been returning Not Found instead of throwing an exception.
297 . Fixed a deviation from the spec: trying to modify the 'id' property of
298 an item now throws an exception.
299 . The plain() template function now html-escapes the content.
300 . Change message was stuffing up for multilinks with no key property.
304 --------------
306 2001-08-30 - 0.2.8
307 Fixed:
308 . Wasn't handling unguessable mime types for file uploads.
309 . Missing import in mailgw.
312 2001-08-29 - 0.2.7
313 Feature:
314 . Text searches are now case insensitive. All forms of text search use
315 regular expressions now.
317 Fixed:
318 . Had another 2.1-ism in the unit tests
319 . Made the mail parser a little more robust w.r.t missing Subject:
320 (both thanks Mikhail Sobolev)
321 . Missed some isFooType usages (thanks Mikhail Sobolev for spotting them)
322 . Reverted back to sending change messages to the web editor of a node so
323 that the change note message is actually genrated.
324 . CGI interface wasn't generating correct change messages.
325 . Notes entered during a change are saved to the messages list even if
326 there's no nosy list. No message is generated if there's no nosy list and
327 there's no change note (since it would just duplicates the journal).
328 . Completely removed the bsddb3 module from the tests - will be reinstated
329 when the http://bsddb.sourceforge.net/'s bugs #439959 and #456408 are
330 dealt with. One is fixed in CVS, the other pending.
333 2001-08-08 - 0.2.6
334 Note:
335 . Roundup is now released under the same terms as the Python License.
337 Feature:
338 . Added tests for instance initialisation. No more releasing the software
339 with bugs in roundup.init!
340 . Now bundling unittest with the package so that python 2.0 users can use
341 the tests.
342 . Much better error handling and messages generated by the mail gateway.
344 Fixed:
345 . Implemented correct mail splitting. Added unit tests. Also snips
346 signatures now too.
347 . Bug #447671 - typo in roundup/init.py
348 . Changed date.Date to use regular string formatting instead of strftime -
349 win32 seems to have problems with %T and no hour... or something...
350 . Bug #448484 - now catching correct exception from makedirs.
351 . Instances are now opened by a special function that generates a unique
352 module name for the instances on import time.
355 2001-08-03 - 0.2.5
356 Note:
357 . The bsddb3 module has a bug that renders it non-functional. Users should
358 select the anydbm or bsddb backend instead.
360 Fixed:
361 . Python 2.0 does not contain the unittest module. The setup.py module now
362 checks for unittest before attempting to run the unit tests.
365 2001-08-03 - 0.2.4
366 Features:
367 . Added ability for cgi newblah forms to indicate that the new node
368 should be linked somewhere.
369 . Added time logging and file uploading to the templates.
370 . Added "My Issues" and "My Support" to extended template. Changed "Your
371 Details" to "My Details". Changed the "New Foo" links to "Add Foo".
372 Added links for unassigned support and issues. Generally reorganised and
373 cleanup the header up.
374 . Changed the order of the information in the message generated by web edits.
375 . Extended the range of intervals that are pretty-printed before actual dates
376 are displayed.
377 . Added more BUILD instructions including the "clean" command to force
378 rebuild.
379 . Web edit messages aren't sent to the person who did the edit any more. No
380 message is generated if they are the only person on the nosy list.
381 . Roundupdb now appends "mailing list" information to its messages which
382 include the e-mail address and web interface address. Templates may
383 override this in their db classes to include specific information (support
384 instructions, etc).
386 Fixed:
387 . Argument handling for the roundup-admin find command.
388 . Handling of summary when no note supplied for newblah. Again.
389 . Detection of no form in htmltemplate Field display.
390 . Checklist html template command was setting wrong name.
391 . 2.1-specific gmtime() (no arg) call in roundup.date. (thanks Paul Wright)
392 . mailgw was making naughty assumptions about the schema of the classes it
393 was creating nodes for.
394 . remove the $Foo$ from the HTML files stored in the htmlbase modules.
395 . Instance import now imports the instance using imp.load_module so that
396 we can have instance homes of "roundup" or other existing python package
397 names.
400 2001-07-30 - 0.2.3
401 Big change:
402 . I've split off the support class from the issue class in "extended".
403 Anyone who has any support entries, sorry. It should be possible to
404 write a scipt that moves the entries over pretty easily. If this causes
405 you pain, I'll do so. You'll want to update your instance with the new
406 code in "extended" either way.
408 Features:
409 . Added the unit tests to the start of setup.py so they're run whenever
410 we do anything distutils'y.
411 . Added nicer prompting to the roundup-admin "init" command.
412 . Actually, the roundup-admin code is totally revamped, and has command
413 help and better command-line arg handling.
414 . The cgi_client.Client base class now reflects the structure of "classic"
415 rather than "extended" since "classic" is more of a "base" template.
416 . Added more DB to test. Skips tests where imports fail.
418 Fixed:
419 . One of the tests in test_date had the wrong expected result.
420 . Fixed IssueClass so that superseders links to its classname rather than
421 hard-coded to "issue".
422 . templatebuilder was catching IOError instead of OSError.
423 . The cgi_client newblah method wasn't detecting the __note form field
424 properly.
425 . The History command in htmltemplate didn't handle a new node (None
426 nodeid) properly.
429 2001-07-29 - 0.2.2
430 Features:
431 . Added implementation.txt to the doc directory. Contains implementation
432 notes specific to this implementations of Roundup.
433 . Cleaned up mailgw some (subclass Message for getPart) and added some
434 tests for multipart splitting.
435 . Better checking for html dir in templatebuilder.
436 . Base hyperdb.Class now fakes the "id" property.
437 . Made the classic roundup look more like the original prototype.
438 . Made cgi_client and templating slightly more generic.
439 . Moved some code around in cgi_client allowing for subclassing to change
440 behaviour.
441 . Added the fabricated property "id" to all hyperdb classes.
442 . Cleanup of the link label generation (new method on hyperdb.Class to do
443 it).
445 Fixed:
446 . Everything uses errno module now to check errno values.
447 . New issue form handles lack of note better now.
448 . HTML templating uses section-bar style for index group headers now.
449 . Fixed problem in link display when Link value is None.
450 . Form handling in cgi client wasn't propogating through the previous
451 query elements.
452 . Fixed sort arguments generated for column headings so sorting can be
453 changed now.
456 2001-07-28 - 0.2.1
457 Features:
458 . Added docstring to roundup package so pydoc reports useful information.
459 . Added the roundup 1 software carpentry submission HTML to the doc
460 directory as "overview.html".
462 Fixes:
463 . Fixed bug in init command - templatebuilder was assuming existence of
464 "html" directory in instance home.
465 . Fixed INSTALL.txt to reflect some changes in the installation and test
466 procedure. Whatdya know, "setup.py install" does the script install.
467 There you go...
468 . Fixed some non-string node ids in cgi_client now that the hyperdb is
469 strict about such things.
471 2001-07-26 - 0.2.0
472 Features:
473 . Major reorganisation of code to allow multiple roundup instances and a
474 single, site-packages -based installation. Also allows multiple database
475 back-ends.
476 . Moved the bin/ proggies into the top dir, so that it all works
477 out-of-the-box
478 . Added the "classic" template - a direct implementation of the Roundup
479 spec. Well, as close as we're going to get, anyway.
480 . Added an issue priority of support to "extended"
481 . Added command-line arg handling to roundup-server so it's more useful
482 out-of-the-box.
483 . Added distutils-style installation of "lib" files.
484 . Added some unit tests.
486 Fixes:
487 . Fixed bug in re generation in the filter
488 . Fixed handling of None String property in grouped list headings
489 . Fixed adding new issue with no change note
490 . Fixed values in text input fields which contained quotes (") are now
491 quoted.
492 . Fixed a bug in the hyperdb filter - wrong variable names in the error
493 message.
495 2001-07-19 - 0.1.3
496 . Reldate now takes an argument "pretty" - when true, it pretty-prints the
497 interval generated up to 5 days, then pretty-prints the date of last
498 activity. The issue index and item now use the pretty format.
499 . Classes list for admin user in CGI interface.
500 . Made the view configuration more accessible, neater and more realistic.
501 . Fixed list view grouping handling grouping by a Multilink or String or Link
502 value of None or Date, ... (mind you, sorting by Date???)
503 . Fixed bug in the plain formatter when a Link was None.
504 . Fixed ordering of list view column headings.
505 . Fixed list view column heading sort links - and limited the number of
506 columns to sort by to 2.
507 . Added searching by glob to StringType filtering -
508 ^text - search for text at start of fields
509 text$ - search for text at end of fields
510 ^text$ - exactly match text in fields
511 te*xt - search for text matching "te"<any characters>"xt"
512 te?xt - search for text matching "te"<any one character>"xt"
513 . Added more fields to the issue.filter and issue.index templates
516 2001-07-18 - 0.1.2
517 . Set default index to ?:group=priority&:columns=activity,status,title so
518 the priority column isn't displayed.
519 . Thanks Anthony:
520 . added notes to the README about Python prerequisites
521 . added check to roundup.py, roundup.cgi, server.py and roundup-mailgw.py
522 for python 2+ - and made the file itself parseable by 1.5.2 ;)
523 . python 2.0 didn't have the default args for the time module functions.
524 . better handling of db directory in initDB
525 . Sorting on the extra properties defined by roundupdb classes was broken
526 due to the caching used. May now sort on activity and creation
527 properties, etc.
528 . Set the default index to sort on activity
531 2001-07-18 - 0.1.1
532 . Initial version release with consent of Roundup spec author, Ka-Ping Yee:
533 "Amazing! Nice work. I'll watch for the source code on your website."
535 2001-07-11 - 0.1.0
536 . Needed a bug tracking system. Looked around. Tried to install many
537 Perl-based systems, to no avail. Got tired of waiting for Roundup to be
538 released. Had just finished major product project, so needed something
539 different for a while. Roundup here I come...