We host official Python issue tracker on Roundup

Little more than a year ago, Python.org decided that they had to move their issue tracking onto a different platform. During their investigations they considered numerous applications ending with a shortlist consisting of: Trac, Roundup, Jira and Launchpad. After the evaluation period the committee was split between Jira and Roundup, with a hosting-offer swinging the balance in favour of Jira.

However, Jira is not open source, whereas Roundup is. Additionally, Roundup is actually written in Python. So, for some of the community, the thought of Python.org using Jira instead of Roundup, seemed like an opportunity going a-begging. Upfront Systems as an active member of that community decided to do something about it and offered to host and manage the Roundup instance for Python Software Foundation.

After some evaluation, the committee decided to accept our offer and as of 23 August 2007 Roundup is the new Python Bug Tracker at bugs.python.org.