Roundup is some damn beautiful software. It’s a very nice and simple package for software bug tracking (oh, pardon me… issue tracking). It can be customized very easily, and in fact from a minimal ‘tracker’ just about any web-based database application could be built with a minimum of fuss. The mail gateway is a beautiful design too. Oh, and I love the fact that e-mailing the system creates a user “account” for that e-mail address (unless it’s associated with an existing account, of course). No fuss bug tracking.
I’d love if it supported some e-mail security, though. Digitally signed messages, for example. The current complete lack of e-mail security makes me irrationally scared – a bad person couldn’t do much, but they could do some.
Here’s a neat trick – for nice clean URLs, place the roundup.cgi script wherever you want it to be, renamed it to just roundup, and add a couple lines to your Apache configuration:
<Location /blah/roundup>
SetHandler cgi-script
</Location>
And you’ll magically get the CGI interface of roundup working without the minor annoyance of having ’roundup.cgi’ in your URLs. Go Apache!