Roundup Tracker

Intro

Various organizations have used/experimented and shared their experiences with Roundup.

Some of these sites have released the templates for their Roundup instances. See Tracker Templates for links to the templates

Here are some mentions from the web.

General Introduction

• In 2021 LWN.net published an article (written by a current Roundup maintainer) about Roundup's 20th anniversary. Read it at https://lwn.net/Articles/869118/.

• A software developer posted a blog about using Roundup:

  https://creditscorenz.blogspot.com/2014/05/does-your-office-have-issues.html

• This ServerWatch article was written a while ago, but it's still correct: https://www.serverwatch.com/guides/track-issues-with-roundup/.

• Tonu Mikk posted an 8 minute getting started video for Roundup

• Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Lab used Roundup internally. In discussion with the author, it was heavily used by a small group. The manager of the group used Roundup at meeting to log status updates. They have a one page poster including some challenges with outlook. See:

  https://www.kpwashingtonresearch.org/application/files/9815/5500/0916/11-web-based-issue-tracker-project-coordination.pdf.

• Ralf Schlatterbeck published a PDF of slides for a talk (in German):

  See the slides at https://www.runtux.com/files/download/roundup.4.pdf.

• Richard Jones presented Roundup at PyCon in 2005. His presentation from that talk can be found at: https://svn.python.org/www/trunk/pydotorg/pycon/2005/papers/12/Roundup-PyCon-2005/pycon_roundup.html

• Ka-Ping Yee presented the original ideas for Roundup in the short paper

  that can be found at http://zesty.ca/roundup.html.

Commercial Offerings

• TurnKey Linux integrated Roundup into an appliance at https://www.turnkeylinux.org/roundup. It is also available as an Amazon AMI.

• FormaVid produces a small business appliance that incorporates Roundup. See details at https://formavid.org/roundup.

• QwikCourse offers training on the Roundup Issue Tracker. Details at: https://qwikcourse.com/c/know_roundup_issue_tracker.

Integration with Other Tools/Platforms/Hosting

• Roundup can run on PythonAnywhere using wsgi. See how at https://www.pythonanywhere.com/forums/topic/797/.

• Ralf Schlatterbeck maintains a connector to synchronize Roundup to other (automotive industry + some support for jira) trackers:

  https://github.com/schlatterbeck/trackersync.

• Connecting Emacs Org Mode and Roundup. See it at the Wayback Machine. Referenced from an Org Mode mailing list thread.

Unusual Uses

• https://www.polyomino.org.uk/mathematics/olympiad-software/intro/ uses Roundup as an online registration system for managing the database of a math olympics.

• A system for providing decision support to rescue corps or military medical

  personnel in combat area based on Roundup is presented by: Cornetta, Gianluca et. al., "Software Architecture and Support for Patient Tracking Systems in Critical Scenarios", World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology 51 (2009). https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=292492d9c0f8f5e62c3c464e95cce8742f004750. See paper at !ResearchGate.

• Abstract: "A paper presenting two case studies that demonstrate the ability to find 0day vulnerabilities in large and small software projects by finding new vulnerabilities in the cpython and Roundup open source projects." (Roundup was used as the bug

  tracker for Python from approx. 2006-2021 until they moved to GitHub.) Choe, Yung Ryn, Cook, Devin, and Hamilton, John A Jr. "Finding Bugs in Source Code Using Commonly Available Development Metadata." United States: N. p., 2015. Web. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1252917

• It was used by Noah Hoffman, MD, PhD for documenting quality control issues with automated chemistry analyzers.

Misc articles

• Techtonik wrote about using the email interface to create and modify Roundup issues.

• Ka-Ping Yee posted a note about the origins of Roundup at Industrial Light and Magic.

• JohnRouillard posted a pair of articles to add a command palette and task time tracker on dev.to.

  • Adding a command palette to a Roundup tracker

  • Adding a task timer to a Roundup tracker

• JohnRouillard also published an article on dev.to on copying an issue reference string to the clipboard. So it can be pasted in other issues.

Roundup Tracker Instances

Since Roundup is usable out of the box, many sites only make small changes to the supplied templates. The Roundup project doesn't collect any stats on how many deployments there are, but Google can be used to find a number of running instances.

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