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.
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The first steps are to perform a standard Redmine plugin installation following these steps:
Navigate to Redmine installation root in your command line.
Clone the most recent fork of the importer repository:
git clone https://github.com/mozamimy/redmine_importer.git plugins/redmine_importer
Run the database migrate rake task:
rake redmine:plugins:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
rm tmp/restart.txt &...