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Thanks for your interest in roundup.
The homepage for this project is https://www.roundup-tracker.org.
Don't use this wiki. The roundup wiki is hosted at: https://wiki.roundup-tracker.org. It has many more examples of customization for your trackers. Consider it an extension of the customization doc.
We don't use GitHub issues. Roundup is software to develop a tracker. So we use it for tracking issues with roundup. We like to eat our own dogfood. You can find it at: https://issues.roundup-tracker.org/.
If you are interested in HacktoberFest, look for issues for new developers in the Roundup issue tracker.
The mailing lists for roundup is where most development and support discussions occur.
- roundup-users at lists.sourceforge dot net is used for support
- roundup-devel at lists dot sourceforge.net
You can sign up for these lists by following the links at https://www.roundup-tracker.org/contact.html. One off emails to the list without signing up are possible but we request you do sign up to make it easier for us to help you as well as give you the ability to see announcements and help the community.
You can submit pull requests here, but please followup with email to the roundup-devel list as only a few of the roundup developers actually have accounts here. We use GitHub mostly for the CI pipeline. Actual development is tracked using mercurial. You can get the details from https://www.roundup-tracker.org/code.html.
Roundup is a simple-to-use and install issue-tracking system written in Python with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition. The first release was in 2001.
Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as "description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability to:
- submit new issues,
- find and edit existing issues, and
- discuss issues with other participants.
The system facilitates communication among the participants by managing discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are edited. One of the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to get going. Roundup is therefore usable "out of the box" with any Python 2.7.2+ or 3.4+ installation. It doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational, though an install script is provided.
It comes with five issue tracker templates
- a classic bug/feature tracker
- a more extensive devel tracker for bug/features etc.
- a responsive version of the devel tracker
- a jinja2 version of the devel template (work in progress)
- a minimal skeleton
and supports four database back-ends (anydbm, sqlite, mysql and postgresql).
It has been adapted to support:
- bug tracking and TODO list management (the classic installation)
- customer help desk support (with a wizard for the phone answerers, linking to networking, system and development issue trackers)
- issue management for IETF working groups
- sales lead tracking
- conference paper submission and double-blind referee management
- weblogging (well, almost :)