FOSS, not freeware, web-based issue tracker written in Python. It's extremely flexible and customizable to your needs, as every organization is different.
It comes with an embedded webserver so you can get it running quickly, and of course it works with apache/mod_python.
As for email, you can create, update, and close tickets via email using keywords/value pairs in the subject line.
I miss this ticket tracker. I work for a consulting firm where we need to handle multiple clients and time tracking w/ billing, so that's a bit beyond roundup's mission. We're using Autotask, and nobody likes it.
Li Datong and his deputy were still fired, and as Li was the editorial heart of the China Youth Daily, even if the policy was not applied, censorship still won the day.
You seem to be talking about revolutions that actually happen...
I think we are basically agreeing here. I don't dispute that to have a revolution, you need an educated middle class. I just think the middle class has no interest in a revolution in China, they have too much invested in the current system, and things are going too well and getting better for them.
So if your arguement is that no peasant revolution would be successful in China without middle class support -- yep, I'm with ya. That's why I don't see any revolution happening in China.
My whole point is that the middle-class has little interest in a revolution or democracy, and yet western media always focuses how young Chinese want to use the internet to discuss democracy. In reality, Chinese internet users use it for pretty unexciting stuff (normal speciality topic chat boards, fashion sites, online magazines, pop idols, music, keeping in touch with friends). It just strikes me as weird that there's this disconnect between how western journalism represents what Chinese internet users want (democracy?) and the reality here in China.
Also, I'm kinda suprised that I keep saying "peasant" and "revolution" so close together and the firewall is not getting me, I guess typing in English helps. Let's try again: peasant revolution peasant revolution peasan#~?/ NO CARRIER
Why does all journalism on China assume that Chinese youths using the internet yearn to overthrow the government? FTFA:
They point out that when chat rooms are closely monitored, people start talking about "cabbages" when they mean "democracy.
If you replace "democracy" with "porn" then you may have something. But the belief that all Chinese want democracy and want it now, is just ethnocentric.
The economy is steadily improving, so people are happy. That is, the middle-class folk who use the internet are happy, because get a large benefit from the stability of the government and the economy.
The only kind of people who would be interested in overthrowing the governemnt in China are the peasants. I hear every other day (not through the official news here in China) about peasant riots over something; usually development companies making land grabs on peasant communities.
So these kinds of peasants obviously have nothing to lose, and maybe even have something to be gained in a change of the system. So yea, they might be intersted in reform. But they are to poor to be on the internet.
So review: people who use the internet, have a vested intersted in the stability of the system, don't want revolution. Please get this through your heads jouranlists of the world.
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FOSS, not freeware, web-based issue tracker written in Python. It's extremely flexible and customizable to your needs, as every organization is different.
It comes with an embedded webserver so you can get it running quickly, and of course it works with apache/mod_python.
As for email, you can create, update, and close tickets via email using keywords/value pairs in the subject line.
I miss this ticket tracker. I work for a consulting firm where we need to handle multiple clients and time tracking w/ billing, so that's a bit beyond roundup's mission. We're using Autotask, and nobody likes it.
Li Datong and his deputy were still fired, and as Li was the editorial heart of the China Youth Daily, even if the policy was not applied, censorship still won the day.
This seems more of a loss than a victory to me.
You seem to be talking about revolutions that actually happen...
I think we are basically agreeing here. I don't dispute that to have a revolution, you need an educated middle class. I just think the middle class has no interest in a revolution in China, they have too much invested in the current system, and things are going too well and getting better for them.
So if your arguement is that no peasant revolution would be successful in China without middle class support -- yep, I'm with ya. That's why I don't see any revolution happening in China.
My whole point is that the middle-class has little interest in a revolution or democracy, and yet western media always focuses how young Chinese want to use the internet to discuss democracy. In reality, Chinese internet users use it for pretty unexciting stuff (normal speciality topic chat boards, fashion sites, online magazines, pop idols, music, keeping in touch with friends). It just strikes me as weird that there's this disconnect between how western journalism represents what Chinese internet users want (democracy?) and the reality here in China.
Also, I'm kinda suprised that I keep saying "peasant" and "revolution" so close together and the firewall is not getting me, I guess typing in English helps. Let's try again: peasant revolution peasant revolution peasan#~?/ NO CARRIER
I am in China, it's not banned. Sometimes keyword filters will temporarily block certain pages, but not this story oddly enough.
Anyway, there's always proxies.
Why does all journalism on China assume that Chinese youths using the internet yearn to overthrow the government? FTFA: They point out that when chat rooms are closely monitored, people start talking about "cabbages" when they mean "democracy. If you replace "democracy" with "porn" then you may have something. But the belief that all Chinese want democracy and want it now, is just ethnocentric. The economy is steadily improving, so people are happy. That is, the middle-class folk who use the internet are happy, because get a large benefit from the stability of the government and the economy. The only kind of people who would be interested in overthrowing the governemnt in China are the peasants. I hear every other day (not through the official news here in China) about peasant riots over something; usually development companies making land grabs on peasant communities. So these kinds of peasants obviously have nothing to lose, and maybe even have something to be gained in a change of the system. So yea, they might be intersted in reform. But they are to poor to be on the internet. So review: people who use the internet, have a vested intersted in the stability of the system, don't want revolution. Please get this through your heads jouranlists of the world.