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= Getting Your Own python-dev Tracker =

This page describes how to setup a roundup tracker instance that works
exactly as the tracker for python-dev on http://bugs.python.org. The
intended audience is people that want to help out with the tracker,
developing new features etc.

= Requirements =

 * Roundup, from the vendor branch used for python-dev (see below).

 * PostgreSQL for use as backend database.

 * A checkout of the python-dev instance from python's subversion repository.

== Installing roundup ==

For python-dev, we use a slighly modified version of roundup which has
some features that are not yet in the core roundup. To keep track of
the changes, we keep a vendor branch of roundup.

Check out /tracker/roundup-src from the python subversion
repository as documented on http://python.org/dev/tools/. For
example, here's how to do anonymous checkout:

{{{
  svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/tracker/roundup-src
}}}

Install this roundup somewhere by running setup.py

{{{
  cd roundup-src
  python setup.py install --prefix /opt/tracker-roundup/
}}}
This page is dedicated to development of Python bug tracker instance at http://bugs.python.org/ <<BR>>
We have a [[http://psf.upfronthosting.co.za/roundup/meta/|meta tracker]] for current issues and [[DesiredTrackerFeatures|DesiredTrackerFeatures]] page for recording ideas.


<<TableOfContents>>

== Requirements ==

 * Roundup 1.4.20+ (patched version)
 * PostgreSQL (as a backend database)
 * psycopg (bindings for the above)

== Getting the source ==

Get patched version of [[http://www.roundup-tracker.org/|Roundup tracker]] from here:

 * http://hg.python.org/tracker/roundup/ (the changes are in the `bugs.python.org` branch)

Tracker configuration for http://bugs.python.org/ (called 'tracker home', 'instance' or `environment) is here:

 * Official: http://hg.python.org/tracker/python-dev/
 * Mirror: https://bitbucket.org/rirror/bugs.python.org

== Other tracker configurations ==

There are several Roundup trackers used for Python development. Configuration for them is maintained in http://hg.python.org/tracker/ repositories:

 * '''roundup''': a clone of the original Roundup with our modifications;
 * '''python-dev''': the instance used on bugs.python.org;
 * '''meta''': the instance used for the meta tracker;
 * '''jython''': the instance used for the jython tracker;
 * '''setuptools''': the instance used for the setuptools tracker;
 * '''rietveld''': a clone of Rietveld used to do reviews on the bug tracker;
 * '''django-gae2django''': a clone of django-gae2django necessary for rietveld;


== Installing patched Roundup ==


Clone code and switch to `bugs.python.org` branch before installing. Here it is
installed to hardcoded system-wide location at `/opt/tracker-roundup/`.

 * Read-only clone
 {{{
hg clone http://hg.python.org/tracker/roundup
}}}

 * Read/Write clone (if you have write access to the repository)
 {{{
hg clone ssh://hg@hg.python.org/tracker/roundup
}}}

{{{
cd roundup
hg up bugs.python.org
sudo python setup.py install --prefix /opt/tracker-roundup/
}}}
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For the python-dev tracker instance we use PostgreSQL as backend
database. Roundup has support for many different databases for backend
(anydbm, metakit, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite...), but for the python-dev
instance, PostgreSQL was selected as it has the best performance for
large installations. Also, for performance reasons, there is at least
one place in the python-dev instance that has a hardcoded dependency
on the backend being an SQL-based one, so you do need PostgreSQL even
for development work (another SQL-based backend might work, but this
has not been tested). I recommend that you run postgreSQL to make your
development environment behave exactly like the environment the real
tracker runs in.

Details on how to install PostgreSQL is outside the scope of this Wiki
Page. Both version 7.4 and 8.1 of PostgreSQL has been tested without
any known problems.

Access configuration of postgresql can be tricky. You need to make
sure that the user you're running roundup as (your unix/windows user)
has access to the postgresql database you intend to use for roundup,
as the postgresql user you've configured in roundup's configuration.

For a development environment with no demands on security, the easiest
way to configure this is probably to allow all users to connect as any
database user as long as the request originates from the local
host. This can be accomplished by the following lines in pg_hba.conf:

{{{
local all all trust
host all all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust
}}}

'''PLEASE NOTE''': This is not a secure configuration on a multi-user
machine.

After the change in pg_hba.conf, reload your postgreSQL database to
make sure it knows about your new access
configuration. Something similar to ''/etc/init.d/postgresql reload''
For the `python-dev` tracker instance we use PostgreSQL on backed, because it has the best performance for large installations. Also for performance reasons, there is at least one place in the `python-dev` config with hardcoded dependency on the SQL-based backed. Other backends may work, but it is recommended to keep development environment close to production.

It has been reported that 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, and 9.1 work well.

Access control in PostgreSQL is tricky. You need to know Unix user, under which you run Roundup, setup access for him to PostgreSQL database, and add PostgreSQL user that you've configured in Roundup's configuration.

For a development environment the easiest way is to allow any user from localhost to connect as any database user. This can be accomplished by editing pg_hba.conf (usually found in /etc/postgresql/9.x/main/ in Linux or /Library/PostgreSQL/9.x/data/ in Mac OS X -- you might need privileges to edit it). The end of the file should look like this (the four changed lines are preceded by ##):


{{{
# Database administrative login by UNIX sockets
##local all postgres ident
local all postgres trust

# TYPE DATABASE USER CIDR-ADDRESS METHOD

# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
##local all all ident
local all all trust
# IPv4 local connections:
##host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5
host all all 127.0.0.1/32 trust
# IPv6 local connections:
##host all all ::1/128 md5
host all all ::1/128 trust
}}}


'''PLEASE NOTE''': This is not a secure configuration on a multi-user machine.


After the change in pg_hba.conf, reload your postgreSQL database to make sure it knows about your new access configuration. Something similar to


{{{
sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql reload
}}}

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Create a database user that is allowed to create databases. This user
will be used when roundup connects to the database.

{{{
#
psql -U postgres

On Mac OS X, do {{{sudo su - postgres}}}. Then use pg_ctl to restart the server:





{{{
/Library/PostgreSQL/9.x/bin/pg_ctl restart -D /Library/PostgreSQL/9.x/data
}}}


Create a database user that is allowed to create databases. This user will be used when roundup connects to the database.





{{{
$
psql -U postgres
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== Checkout and Configure your Development Roundup Instance ==

The python-dev tracker instance is version-controlled with subversion,
and resides in the python subversion repository.

{{{
  svn co http://svn.python.org/projects/tracker/instances/python-dev
}}}

Now enter the python-dev directory, and create the 'db' directory (not
in svn as it's just to much fuzz to keep it there - every time you run
''roundup-admin init'' it is removed and recreated, confusing svn who
wants to keep its .svn directory intact), as well as the
db/backend_name file which decides which backend (i.e. database type)
to use:

{{{

=== Upgrading PostgreSQL from 8.4 to 9.1 ===


If you have a tracker instance running on PostgreSQL 8.4 and you want to update it to 9.1, follow these steps:


1. Install postgresql-9.1;


2. Remove the new default cluster using {{{sudo pg_dropcluster --stop 9.1 main}}};


3. Update the old clusted with {{{sudo pg_upgradecluster 8.4 main}}};


4. If you get the error:


{{{
The PostgreSQL server failed to start. Please check the log output:
FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: Invalid argument
DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=5432001, size=34922496, 03600).
HINT: This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request for a shared memory segment exceeded your kernel's SHMMAX parameter. You can either reduce the request size or reconfigure the kernel with larger SHMMAX. To reduce the request size (currently 34922496 bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared memory usage, perhaps by reducing shared_buffers or max_connections.
        If the request size is already small, it's possible that it is less than your kernel's SHMMIN parameter, in which case raising the request size or reconfiguring SHMMIN is called for.
}}}


you check the value of shmmax with {{{sysctl -a | grep -i shm}}}. You can change the value permanently adding {{{kernel.shmmax = 34922496}}} in {{{/etc/sysctl.d/30-postgresql-shm.conf}}} and running {{{sudo sysctl -p}}} to apply the changes, or temporarily with {{{sudo sysctl kernel.shmmax=34922496}}}.


5. If everything works with 9.1 you can then remove 8.4;


== Installing psycopg or psycopg2 ==


You need to install psycopg or psycopg2:


{{{
sudo apt-get install python-psycopg2
}}}


In case that doesn't work, you can download the latest .tar.gz from http://www.initd.org, extract it and install it:


{{{
tar xzf psycopg2-2.3.2.tar.gz
cd psycopg2-2.3.2/
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install
}}}


If during the ''python setup.py build'' you get:


 * "fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory", you need to {{{sudo apt-get install python-dev}}};
 * "fatal error: libpq-fe.h: No such file or directory", you need to {{{sudo apt-get install libpq-dev}}};


If you are having other problems or installing a different version check psycopg2-2.3.2/INSTALL.


== Checkout the python-dev instance ==

 * Read-only clone
 {{{
hg clone http://hg.python.org/tracker/python-dev
}}}

 * Read/Write clone (if you have write access to the repository)
 {{{
hg clone ssh://hg@hg.python.org/tracker/python-dev
}}}



== Checkout the Rietveld integration ==


Running the Rietveld code review tool is optional. If you want to work on it, check out the django-gae2django and rietveld clones in the python-dev/ directory:


 * Read-only clone
 {{{
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hg clone http://hg.python.org/tracker/django-gae2django/
hg clone http://hg.python.org/tracker/rietveld/
}}}

 * Read/Write clone (if you have write access to the repository)
 {{{
cd python-dev
hg clone ssh://hg@hg.python.org/tracker/django-gae2django/
hg clone ssh://hg@hg.python.org/tracker/rietveld/
}}}



After getting the clones '''remember to update the branches to bugs.python.org''':

{{{
cd django-gae2django
hg up bugs.python.org
cd ..
cd rietveld
hg up bugs.python.org
}}}


In addition, Django needs to be installed; e.g. the Django 1.2 or 1.3 Debian packages work fine.


== Configure your Development Roundup Instance ==


Now enter the python-dev directory, and create the 'db' directory, as well as the db/backend_name file which decides which backend (i.e. database type) to use:

{{{
cd instances/python-dev
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Copy python-dev/config.ini.template into config.ini, and modify it
according to your site. Pay special attention to settings marked with
''NO DEFAULT''. However, if you've configure your PostgreSQL as above,
most settings should be OK.

If you need to do development on the busybody or tellteam detectors,
copy detectors/config.ini.template into detectors/config.ini, and
adjust the e-mail addresses accordingly.

Note: the db dir contains all the messages and files attached to issues, and it's removed and recreated every time you run {{{roundup-admin init}}}.


Copy {{{python-dev/config.ini.template}}} into {{{config.ini}}} and {{{detectors/config.ini.template}}} into {{{detectors/config.ini}}}:

{{{
cp config.ini.template config.ini
cp detectors/config.ini.template detectors/config.ini
}}}

The former will let you configure your roundup instance; the latter, detectors such as '''irker''', '''busybody''', or '''tellteam'''.


In config.ini pay special attention to settings marked with ''NO DEFAULT''.
If you don't want to configure roundup to send emails but save them on a file instead, you can set


{{{
debug = debugmail.txt
}}}


at the end of the {{{[mail]}}} section.


If you want to see the tracebacks in the browser instead of having them sent by email, at the end of the {{{[web]}}} section set


{{{
debug = on
}}}
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'''Note''': you have to provide the full path to your python-dev directory, otherwise the command will fail.


If you are getting the error:


 * "{{{roundup.hyperdb.DatabaseError: FATAL:  password authentication failed for user "roundup"}}}" check again pg_hba.conf;
 * "{{{roundup.configuration.OptionUnsetError: MAIL_DOMAIN is not set and has no default}}}" set the option in python-dev/config.ini, [mail] section, domain;

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You should now be able to browse http://localhost:9999/python-dev/ and
get a roundup instance that looks just like http://bugs.python.org.

You will have to use this command every time you (re)start roundup, so it's easier to create an alias for it with:


{{{
alias start-roundup='/opt/tracker-roundup/bin/roundup-server -p 9999 python-dev=<your python-dev directory>'
}}}


It might be a good idea to create another alias for roundup admin too:


{{{
alias admin-roundup='/opt/tracker-roundup/bin/roundup-admin -i <your python-dev directory>'
}}}


then add them to your {{{.bashrc}}} (or {{{~/.profile}}} in Mac OS X)


You should now be able to browse http://localhost:9999/python-dev/ and get a roundup instance that looks just like http://bugs.python.org, except for some missing new values for fields like Stages and Keywords. It's possible to replace '''initial_data.py''' with an [[TrackerDevelopment?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=initial_data_updated.py|updated version]] so that your fields will have values that match those currently present in the Python Tracker.


The IDs for values in a given field might be different from those in the Python Tracker. This should only be a problem if you try to import CSV files from one tracker into the other.


Create an user from User->register in the left sidebar. Note that if you have set {{{debug = debugmail.txt}}} as suggested above, you will have to open the file and copy the URL in the browser (make sure to replace {{{=3D}}} with {{{=}}} in the URL and to remove the trailing {{{=}}} where the url is broken at the end of the line). You can then use roundup-admin to set developer privileges for it:


{{{
/opt/tracker-roundup/bin/roundup-admin -i <your python-dev directory>
Roundup 1.5.0 ready for input.
Type "help" for help.
roundup> display user3
...
roundup> set user3 roles=User,Developer,Coordinator
roundup> commit
roundup>
}}}


You can find your user id clicking on "Your Details" in the left sidebar and then looking at the address bar (it should show something similar to http://localhost:9999/python-dev/user3).


== Rietveld Setup ==


The Roundup and Rietveld data are stored in the same Postgres database. After the Roundup tables have been created, add to python-dev/config.ini:





{{{
[django]
secret_key = <the_secret_key>
}}}


To generate the secret key you can use an online django secret key generator, or just put an arbitrary string.


Before continuing make sure to check with "hg branch" that the branch is "bugs.python.org" on both the rietveld and the django-gae2django clones.


{{{
cd rietveld
python manage.py syncdb
cd ..
PYTHONPATH=detectors/:/opt/tracker-roundup/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ python scripts/initrietveld
}}}


If you are upgrading from an older installation, review the revision history of rietveld/migration.


To run the Rietveld code, do





{{{
python manage.py runserver
}}}


This will run Rietveld by default on port 8000. Alternatively to the development server, you can also configure your web server to run rietveld.wsgi under the /review URL.


Rietveld patchset creation is an offline activity. If you have new patches in your tracker instance, run





{{{
scripts/addpatchsets
}}}


If you get errors like:


{{{
django.db.utils.DatabaseError: column codereview_repository.guid does not exist
LINE 1: ...itory"."url", "codereview_repository"."owner_id", "coderevie...
}}}


you can try to remove the table(s) from the database and re-run syncdb and initrietveld:


{{{
$ psql -U roundup
psql (9.1.4)
Type "help" for help.

roundup=> \d codereview_repository
     Table "public.codereview_repository"
... check here if some column is missing and if it is drop the table ...
roundup=> drop table codereview_repository cascade;
NOTICE: drop cascades to constraint codereview_branch_repo_id_fkey on table codereview_branch
DROP TABLE
roundup=> \q

$ cd rietveld
$ python manage.py syncdb
Creating tables ...
Creating table codereview_repository
Installing custom SQL ...
Installing indexes ...
No fixtures found.
$ cd ..
$ PYTHONPATH=detectors/:/opt/tracker-roundup/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ python scripts/initrietveld
}}}


== irker setup ==


irkerd is a daemon that sends notification on IRC whenever a message is added or an issue is created, and replaces the CIA.vc service.


You will need:


* irker: http://www.catb.org/esr/irker/


* the irc package: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/irc/


To install them you can use:


{{{
wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/i/irc/irc-5.0.1.zip
unzip irc-5.0.1.zip
cd irc-5.0.1/
sudo python setup.py install
cd ..

wget http://www.catb.org/~esr/irker/irker-1.17.tar.gz
tar -zxvf irker-1.17.tar.gz
}}}


If you get the error {{{ImportError: No module named hgtools.plugins}}} during the {{{sudo python setup.py install}}}, you can try the command again and it should automagically work.


Make sure that you have listed the address of the channels that should receive the messages in {{{detectors/config.ini}}}, e.g.:


{{{
[irker]
channels = irc://chat.freenode.net/python-dev
}}}


To start irker use:


{{{
cd irker-1.17/
./irkerd &
}}}


You can also use {{{./irkerd -d3}}} to see debugging messages.


= Resources for Tracker Development =
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Since the Python Tracker is a slightly modified version of [[http://www.roundup-tracker.org|Roundup]], both Roundup's [[http://www.roundup-tracker.org/docs.html|Documentation]] and [[http://issues.roundup-tracker.org/|issue tracker]] contain relevant information about how the Python Tracker works and problems one might find working with its code.


== Using roundup-admin ==


To start roundup-admin interactively use:


{{{
/opt/tracker-roundup/bin/roundup-admin -i <your python-dev directory>
}}}


To get the list of users, issues, msgs, files, etc:


{{{
roundup> list user
}}}


To see info about a specific user, issue, msg, file, etc:


{{{
roundup> display userXXX
}}}


To change the role of an user:


{{{
roundup> set userXXX roles=User,Developer
roundup> commit
}}}


Users have limited privileges and can edit just some of the fields in the issue page. Developers can edit all the fields and remove msgs and files. Coordinators can also mark/unmark messages as spam and change some of the settings of other users (e.g. if they submitted the contributor agreement).


To add back a message deleted accidentally:


{{{
roundup> set issueXXX messages=+YYY
roundup> commit
}}}


The message will be added back in the right position. (This should be equivalent to b.p.o/issueXXX?@action=edit&@add@messages=YYY, but this doesn't seem to work.)


== The Meta Tracker ==


A [[http://psf.upfronthosting.co.za/roundup/meta/|Meta Tracker]] is available for handling bugs and features requests for the [[http://bugs.python.org/|Python Tracker]].


== Setting Up an Instance in a VirtualEnv ==


See [[TrackerDevelopmentVirtualEnv|TrackerDevelopmentVirtualEnv]].


== The Test Tracker ==


Public test instance of the Python tracker: http://bot.bio.br/python-dev/ (currently offine)


Instance that attempts to match the code used in http://bugs.python.org to allow testing, reproducing and verifying fixes for tracker bugs. Can also be used as a sandbox by users interested in learning about Developer, Coordinator or Admin tasks and features. Testing new content (e.g. Components or Statuses) is OK, but new features show be tested in the Experimental Tracker instead.


Currently the email system is disabled (redirected to file), so people interested in having an account there to test new features should email [[http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-discuss|tracker-discuss]] to get one. Maintained by [[DanielDiniz|DanielDiniz]].


== The Experimental Tracker ==


Modified version of the Python tracker: http://bot.bio.br/python-dev-exp/ (currently offline)


It's an instance to showcase and test new features.


New features (2009-04-18):


 * [[http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tracker-discuss/2009-April/002099.html|Issue tags]]
 * [[http://psf.upfronthosting.co.za/roundup/meta/issue249|Quiet properties]]
 * [[http://psf.upfronthosting.co.za/roundup/meta/issue267|Restore removed messages and files]]
 * [[http://psf.upfronthosting.co.za/roundup/meta/issue258|Claim ('assign to self') and add/remove self as nosy buttons]]
 * [[http://psf.upfronthosting.co.za/roundup/meta/issue266|Don't close issues with open dependencies]]
 * [[http://psf.upfronthosting.co.za/roundup/meta/issue258|Auto-add nosy users based on Components]]
 * [[http://psf.upfronthosting.co.za/roundup/meta/issue245|"Email me" buttons for messages and issues, "Reply by email"]]
 * [[http://psf.upfronthosting.co.za/roundup/meta/issue155|RSS feeds (per issue and global)]]
 * [[http://psf.upfronthosting.co.za/roundup/meta/issue246|Display selected issues in the index view]]
 * [[http://psf.upfronthosting.co.za/roundup/meta/issue248|Mass-update/batch-editing support]]


Currently the email system is disabled (redirected to file), so people interested in having an account there to test new features should email [[http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-discuss|tracker-discuss]] to get one. Maintained by [[DanielDiniz|DanielDiniz]].


There is also a list of additional [[DesiredTrackerFeatures|DesiredTrackerFeatures]] for which no patches yet exist.


= Getting Your Own Jython Tracker =


To set up a local Jython tracker, please follow instructions for python-dev tracker with following exceptions:


 * There is no '''CIA.vc''' detector

 * The repository for Jython tracker can be cloned with:





{{{
hg clone http://hg.python.org/tracker/jython/
}}}


----

[[CategoryTracker|CategoryTracker]] [[CategoryDevelopmentProcess|CategoryDevelopmentProcess]]

This page is dedicated to development of Python bug tracker instance at http://bugs.python.org/
We have a meta tracker for current issues and DesiredTrackerFeatures page for recording ideas.

Requirements

  • Roundup 1.4.20+ (patched version)
  • PostgreSQL (as a backend database)
  • psycopg (bindings for the above)

Getting the source

Get patched version of Roundup tracker from here:

Tracker configuration for http://bugs.python.org/ (called 'tracker home', 'instance' or `environment) is here:

Other tracker configurations

There are several Roundup trackers used for Python development. Configuration for them is maintained in http://hg.python.org/tracker/ repositories:

  • roundup: a clone of the original Roundup with our modifications;

  • python-dev: the instance used on bugs.python.org;

  • meta: the instance used for the meta tracker;

  • jython: the instance used for the jython tracker;

  • setuptools: the instance used for the setuptools tracker;

  • rietveld: a clone of Rietveld used to do reviews on the bug tracker;

  • django-gae2django: a clone of django-gae2django necessary for rietveld;

Installing patched Roundup

Clone code and switch to bugs.python.org branch before installing. Here it is installed to hardcoded system-wide location at /opt/tracker-roundup/.

  • Read-only clone
    hg clone http://hg.python.org/tracker/roundup
  • Read/Write clone (if you have write access to the repository)
    hg clone ssh://hg@hg.python.org/tracker/roundup

cd roundup
hg up bugs.python.org
sudo python setup.py install --prefix /opt/tracker-roundup/

Install and configure PostgreSQL

For the python-dev tracker instance we use PostgreSQL on backed, because it has the best performance for large installations. Also for performance reasons, there is at least one place in the python-dev config with hardcoded dependency on the SQL-based backed. Other backends may work, but it is recommended to keep development environment close to production.

It has been reported that 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, and 9.1 work well.

Access control in PostgreSQL is tricky. You need to know Unix user, under which you run Roundup, setup access for him to PostgreSQL database, and add PostgreSQL user that you've configured in Roundup's configuration.

For a development environment the easiest way is to allow any user from localhost to connect as any database user. This can be accomplished by editing pg_hba.conf (usually found in /etc/postgresql/9.x/main/ in Linux or /Library/PostgreSQL/9.x/data/ in Mac OS X -- you might need privileges to edit it). The end of the file should look like this (the four changed lines are preceded by ##):

# Database administrative login by UNIX sockets
##local   all         postgres                          ident
local   all         postgres                          trust

# TYPE  DATABASE    USER        CIDR-ADDRESS          METHOD

# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
##local   all         all                               ident
local   all         all                               trust
# IPv4 local connections:
##host    all         all         127.0.0.1/32          md5
host    all         all         127.0.0.1/32          trust
# IPv6 local connections:
##host    all         all         ::1/128               md5
host    all         all         ::1/128               trust

PLEASE NOTE: This is not a secure configuration on a multi-user machine.

After the change in pg_hba.conf, reload your postgreSQL database to make sure it knows about your new access configuration. Something similar to

sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql reload

should do the trick on Unix-like platforms.

On Mac OS X, do sudo su - postgres. Then use pg_ctl to restart the server:

/Library/PostgreSQL/9.x/bin/pg_ctl restart -D /Library/PostgreSQL/9.x/data

Create a database user that is allowed to create databases. This user will be used when roundup connects to the database.

$ psql -U postgres
postgres=# create user roundup;
postgres=# alter user roundup with createdb;

Upgrading PostgreSQL from 8.4 to 9.1

If you have a tracker instance running on PostgreSQL 8.4 and you want to update it to 9.1, follow these steps:

1. Install postgresql-9.1;

2. Remove the new default cluster using sudo pg_dropcluster --stop 9.1 main;

3. Update the old clusted with sudo pg_upgradecluster 8.4 main;

4. If you get the error:

The PostgreSQL server failed to start. Please check the log output:
FATAL:  could not create shared memory segment: Invalid argument
DETAIL:  Failed system call was shmget(key=5432001, size=34922496, 03600).
HINT:  This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request for a shared memory segment exceeded your kernel's SHMMAX parameter.  You can either reduce the request size or reconfigure the kernel with larger SHMMAX.  To reduce the request size (currently 34922496 bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared memory usage, perhaps by reducing shared_buffers or max_connections.
        If the request size is already small, it's possible that it is less than your kernel's SHMMIN parameter, in which case raising the request size or reconfiguring SHMMIN is called for.

you check the value of shmmax with sysctl -a | grep -i shm. You can change the value permanently adding kernel.shmmax = 34922496 in /etc/sysctl.d/30-postgresql-shm.conf and running sudo sysctl -p to apply the changes, or temporarily with sudo sysctl kernel.shmmax=34922496.

5. If everything works with 9.1 you can then remove 8.4;

Installing psycopg or psycopg2

You need to install psycopg or psycopg2:

sudo apt-get install python-psycopg2

In case that doesn't work, you can download the latest .tar.gz from http://www.initd.org, extract it and install it:

tar xzf psycopg2-2.3.2.tar.gz
cd psycopg2-2.3.2/
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install

If during the python setup.py build you get:

  • "fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory", you need to sudo apt-get install python-dev;

  • "fatal error: libpq-fe.h: No such file or directory", you need to sudo apt-get install libpq-dev;

If you are having other problems or installing a different version check psycopg2-2.3.2/INSTALL.

Checkout the python-dev instance

  • Read-only clone
    hg clone http://hg.python.org/tracker/python-dev
  • Read/Write clone (if you have write access to the repository)
    hg clone ssh://hg@hg.python.org/tracker/python-dev

Checkout the Rietveld integration

Running the Rietveld code review tool is optional. If you want to work on it, check out the django-gae2django and rietveld clones in the python-dev/ directory:

  • Read-only clone
    cd python-dev
    hg clone http://hg.python.org/tracker/django-gae2django/
    hg clone http://hg.python.org/tracker/rietveld/
  • Read/Write clone (if you have write access to the repository)
    cd python-dev
    hg clone ssh://hg@hg.python.org/tracker/django-gae2django/
    hg clone ssh://hg@hg.python.org/tracker/rietveld/

After getting the clones remember to update the branches to bugs.python.org:

cd django-gae2django
hg up bugs.python.org
cd ..
cd rietveld
hg up bugs.python.org

In addition, Django needs to be installed; e.g. the Django 1.2 or 1.3 Debian packages work fine.

Configure your Development Roundup Instance

Now enter the python-dev directory, and create the 'db' directory, as well as the db/backend_name file which decides which backend (i.e. database type) to use:

cd instances/python-dev
mkdir db
echo postgresql > db/backend_name

Note: the db dir contains all the messages and files attached to issues, and it's removed and recreated every time you run roundup-admin init.

Copy python-dev/config.ini.template into config.ini and detectors/config.ini.template into detectors/config.ini:

cp config.ini.template config.ini
cp detectors/config.ini.template detectors/config.ini

The former will let you configure your roundup instance; the latter, detectors such as irker, busybody, or tellteam.

In config.ini pay special attention to settings marked with NO DEFAULT. If you don't want to configure roundup to send emails but save them on a file instead, you can set

debug = debugmail.txt

at the end of the [mail] section.

If you want to see the tracebacks in the browser instead of having them sent by email, at the end of the [web] section set

debug = on

Initialize your roundup instance:

/opt/tracker-roundup/bin/roundup-admin -i <your python-dev directory> init

Provide a password for the 'admin' user when asked for.

Note: you have to provide the full path to your python-dev directory, otherwise the command will fail.

If you are getting the error:

  • "roundup.hyperdb.DatabaseError: FATAL:  password authentication failed for user "roundup"" check again pg_hba.conf;

  • "roundup.configuration.OptionUnsetError: MAIL_DOMAIN is not set and has no default" set the option in python-dev/config.ini, [mail] section, domain;

Start your roundup instance:

/opt/tracker-roundup/bin/roundup-server -p 9999 python-dev=<your python-dev directory>

You will have to use this command every time you (re)start roundup, so it's easier to create an alias for it with:

alias start-roundup='/opt/tracker-roundup/bin/roundup-server -p 9999 python-dev=<your python-dev directory>'

It might be a good idea to create another alias for roundup admin too:

alias admin-roundup='/opt/tracker-roundup/bin/roundup-admin -i <your python-dev directory>'

then add them to your .bashrc (or ~/.profile in Mac OS X)

You should now be able to browse http://localhost:9999/python-dev/ and get a roundup instance that looks just like http://bugs.python.org, except for some missing new values for fields like Stages and Keywords. It's possible to replace initial_data.py with an updated version so that your fields will have values that match those currently present in the Python Tracker.

The IDs for values in a given field might be different from those in the Python Tracker. This should only be a problem if you try to import CSV files from one tracker into the other.

Create an user from User->register in the left sidebar. Note that if you have set debug = debugmail.txt as suggested above, you will have to open the file and copy the URL in the browser (make sure to replace =3D with = in the URL and to remove the trailing = where the url is broken at the end of the line). You can then use roundup-admin to set developer privileges for it:

/opt/tracker-roundup/bin/roundup-admin -i <your python-dev directory>
Roundup 1.5.0 ready for input.
Type "help" for help.
roundup> display user3
...
roundup> set user3 roles=User,Developer,Coordinator
roundup> commit
roundup>

You can find your user id clicking on "Your Details" in the left sidebar and then looking at the address bar (it should show something similar to http://localhost:9999/python-dev/user3).

Rietveld Setup

The Roundup and Rietveld data are stored in the same Postgres database. After the Roundup tables have been created, add to python-dev/config.ini:

[django]
secret_key = <the_secret_key>

To generate the secret key you can use an online django secret key generator, or just put an arbitrary string.

Before continuing make sure to check with "hg branch" that the branch is "bugs.python.org" on both the rietveld and the django-gae2django clones.

cd rietveld
python manage.py syncdb
cd ..
PYTHONPATH=detectors/:/opt/tracker-roundup/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ python scripts/initrietveld

If you are upgrading from an older installation, review the revision history of rietveld/migration.

To run the Rietveld code, do

python manage.py runserver

This will run Rietveld by default on port 8000. Alternatively to the development server, you can also configure your web server to run rietveld.wsgi under the /review URL.

Rietveld patchset creation is an offline activity. If you have new patches in your tracker instance, run

scripts/addpatchsets

If you get errors like:

django.db.utils.DatabaseError: column codereview_repository.guid does not exist
LINE 1: ...itory"."url", "codereview_repository"."owner_id", "coderevie...

you can try to remove the table(s) from the database and re-run syncdb and initrietveld:

$ psql -U roundup
psql (9.1.4)
Type "help" for help.

roundup=> \d codereview_repository
     Table "public.codereview_repository"
... check here if some column is missing and if it is drop the table ...
roundup=> drop table codereview_repository cascade;
NOTICE:  drop cascades to constraint codereview_branch_repo_id_fkey on table codereview_branch
DROP TABLE
roundup=> \q

$ cd rietveld
$ python manage.py syncdb
Creating tables ...
Creating table codereview_repository
Installing custom SQL ...
Installing indexes ...
No fixtures found.
$ cd ..
$ PYTHONPATH=detectors/:/opt/tracker-roundup/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ python scripts/initrietveld

irker setup

irkerd is a daemon that sends notification on IRC whenever a message is added or an issue is created, and replaces the CIA.vc service.

You will need:

* irker: http://www.catb.org/esr/irker/

* the irc package: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/irc/

To install them you can use:

wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/i/irc/irc-5.0.1.zip
unzip irc-5.0.1.zip
cd irc-5.0.1/
sudo python setup.py install
cd ..

wget http://www.catb.org/~esr/irker/irker-1.17.tar.gz
tar -zxvf irker-1.17.tar.gz

If you get the error ImportError: No module named hgtools.plugins during the sudo python setup.py install, you can try the command again and it should automagically work.

Make sure that you have listed the address of the channels that should receive the messages in detectors/config.ini, e.g.:

[irker]
channels = irc://chat.freenode.net/python-dev

To start irker use:

cd irker-1.17/
./irkerd &

You can also use ./irkerd -d3 to see debugging messages.

Resources for Tracker Development

Getting Help

Subscribe to and ask your question on the tracker-discuss mailing list. See http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-discuss

Since the Python Tracker is a slightly modified version of Roundup, both Roundup's Documentation and issue tracker contain relevant information about how the Python Tracker works and problems one might find working with its code.

Using roundup-admin

To start roundup-admin interactively use:

/opt/tracker-roundup/bin/roundup-admin -i <your python-dev directory>

To get the list of users, issues, msgs, files, etc:

roundup> list user

To see info about a specific user, issue, msg, file, etc:

roundup> display userXXX

To change the role of an user:

roundup> set userXXX roles=User,Developer
roundup> commit

Users have limited privileges and can edit just some of the fields in the issue page. Developers can edit all the fields and remove msgs and files. Coordinators can also mark/unmark messages as spam and change some of the settings of other users (e.g. if they submitted the contributor agreement).

To add back a message deleted accidentally:

roundup> set issueXXX messages=+YYY
roundup> commit

The message will be added back in the right position. (This should be equivalent to b.p.o/issueXXX?@action=edit&@add@messages=YYY, but this doesn't seem to work.)

The Meta Tracker

A Meta Tracker is available for handling bugs and features requests for the Python Tracker.

Setting Up an Instance in a VirtualEnv

See TrackerDevelopmentVirtualEnv.

The Test Tracker

Public test instance of the Python tracker: http://bot.bio.br/python-dev/ (currently offine)

Instance that attempts to match the code used in http://bugs.python.org to allow testing, reproducing and verifying fixes for tracker bugs. Can also be used as a sandbox by users interested in learning about Developer, Coordinator or Admin tasks and features. Testing new content (e.g. Components or Statuses) is OK, but new features show be tested in the Experimental Tracker instead.

Currently the email system is disabled (redirected to file), so people interested in having an account there to test new features should email tracker-discuss to get one. Maintained by DanielDiniz.

The Experimental Tracker

Modified version of the Python tracker: http://bot.bio.br/python-dev-exp/ (currently offline)

It's an instance to showcase and test new features.

New features (2009-04-18):

Currently the email system is disabled (redirected to file), so people interested in having an account there to test new features should email tracker-discuss to get one. Maintained by DanielDiniz.

There is also a list of additional DesiredTrackerFeatures for which no patches yet exist.

Getting Your Own Jython Tracker

To set up a local Jython tracker, please follow instructions for python-dev tracker with following exceptions:

  • There is no CIA.vc detector

  • The repository for Jython tracker can be cloned with:

hg clone http://hg.python.org/tracker/jython/


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