Roundup Wiki

Introduction

• This wiki page describes the tracker created by people on the

• roundup-devel list for submission to the call for trackers issued by the python infrastructure team. See

  http://wiki.python.org/moin/CallForTrackers for details.

  • A test tracker has been setup and is available on

  http://efod.se/python-tracker/, where it can be tested by anyone. People who have previously created/edited tracker items on sourceforge using their sourceforge usernames can login using the same username after aquiring a new password by using the "Lost Login" functionality. See http://efod.se/python-tracker/user?@template=forgotten for details.

  • The members of the python infrastructure team has been assigned
  administrative rights. A separate mail with information about this will be sent to the infrastructure team's mailing list.

About the tracker

• Since roundup is not just a tracker application such as bugzilla

• or the sf.net tracker, but instead more of a framework for building trackers, the python-tracker team has chosen to implement a basic tracker that contains the same metadata as the sf.net trackers.
  • The idea is to start with a basic tracker, then add features that
  the python infrastructure team wants. Some ideas for what kind of features could be added are available in a roundup instance used for keeping track of the development of the python-tracker,

  available at http://efod.se/ptt/

  • Roundup is a very general piece of software, which means that
  future enhancements needed by the python developers will be easy to implement. Web pages are easily changed since they are built from templates using the TAL template language, and new behaviour can easily be added by writing small pieces of python code.
  • PostgreSQL is used as database backend.

Code

• The schema, templates, etc. as well as the code used to import

• data from sourceforge is available in the CVS module python-tracker in the CVS repository for roundup. See

  http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=31577 for instructions on how to check out the code, and http://roundup.cvs.sourceforge.net/roundup/python-tracker/ for ViewCVS access.