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Redmine Cookbook

By : Shamasis Bhattacharya
Book Image

Redmine Cookbook

By: Shamasis Bhattacharya

Overview of this book

In a variety of online project management tools, Redmine markets itself as offering flexibility. Choosing the right management tool can mean the difference between the success and failure of a project. Flexible project management tools bend themselves to fit your needs, whether that’s communication regarding a simple project, or collaboration, or more complex project methodology such as SCRUM, or an issue-code relationship, or the need of different methodology for your project. Whether you are project manager or system administrator, this book provides valuable recipes to get the best possible performance out of your team, organization, infrastructure, and Redmine itself. Through a series of carefully crafted recipes covering the nitty-gritty of Redmine, you’ll be guided through the installation of Redmine, as well as how to fine-tune and customize your Redmine installation. Finally, we walk you through integrating Redmine with other softwares and databases like Tortoise SVN and Visual Studio and troubleshooting Redmine.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Redmine Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Importing issues to Redmine


This recipe covers the following scenario: the migration of existing issues and projects from other project management systems to Redmine. There are many ways to import issues to Redmine. Plugins, third-party software products, third-party scripts, and direct database import. This recipe covers the scenario of installing and using the most recent fork of the http://www.redmine.org/plugins/importer plugin.

Getting ready

Search for a way to export issues from the software that you are currently using to the CSV or Excel file format.

How to do it…

The first steps are to perform a standard Redmine plugin installation following these steps:

  1. Navigate to Redmine installation root in your command line.

  2. Clone the most recent fork of the importer repository:

    git clone https://github.com/mozamimy/redmine_importer.git plugins/redmine_importer
    
  3. Run the database migrate rake task:

    rake redmine:plugins:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
    
  4. Restart Redmine as follows:

    rm tmp/restart.txt &amp...