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Redmine Cookbook

By : Pavic
Book Image

Redmine Cookbook

By: Pavic

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 (12 chapters)
11
Index

Using Redmine with Jenkins


Jenkins is a tool for continuous integration, often used by software development companies to provide automated workflows for building and deploying software. Usual use-case scenarios of Redmine plus Jenkins would mean that you can track Jenkins, build statuses from Redmine, and more advanced integration makes Jenkins able to create issues in Redmine automatically if a build fails.

Getting ready

A Jenkins server with active and configured jobs is required.

Redmine server administrator access and Redmine administrator account is required.

How to do it…

Once you have made sure that your Jenkins server and job that is related to your Redmine project is properly configured, proceed with the Redmine Jenkins plugin installation:

  1. Open the console and navigate to Redmine installation root.

  2. Navigate to plugins folder:

    cd plugins
    
  3. Now, type these lines in the console:

    git clone https://github.com/jbox-web/redmine_bootstrap_kit.git
    git clone https://github.com/jbox-web/redmine_jenkins...