How to hook Pivotal Tracker to Redmine?

Question

Our company is currently using Redmine, it's great for general tasks / troubleshooting (operation) but for development, I would like to adopt a more agile tool... and I found it in pivotaltracker.

I googled but couldn't find any info., so that gave me a good excuse to try StackOverflow.

Has anyone done it? I'm thinking of using PivotalTracker as the main tool, and all activities will be posted back to redmine for archiving and reporting. (Redmine isn't particularly strong at that either, but it does have a budget plugin and I can query the database directly for my custom reports.)

Thanks.

Answer 1

Somebody? Anybody?

We are also very much interested in the integration of the two! Redmine is fine for bug/issue tracking but a nightmare in prioritizing or planning a timeline. I read something about Pivotal Tracker requiring an xml with the following format: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/help/integrations#external_integrations

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<external_stories type="array">
  <external_story>
    <external_id>foo</external_id>
    <name>More power to shields</name>
    <description></description>
    <requested_by>James Kirk</requested_by>
    <created_at type="datetime">2008/12/10 00:00:00 UTC</created_at>
    <story_type>feature</story_type>
    <estimate type="integer">1</estimate>
  </external_story>
  <external_story>
    <external_id>bar</external_id>
    <name>I am story 2</name>
    <description>I am a description</description>
    <requested_by>I am the reporter</requested_by>
    <created_at type="datetime">2009/12/10 00:00:00 UTC</created_at>
    <story_type>bug</story_type>
    <estimate type="integer">2</estimate>
  </external_story>
</external_stories>

Just don't know how to get this from Redmine...

Answer 2

Someone might just need to write a plugin at this point.

PT has a rich API and a section on its Integrations page about Activity Web hooks, and Redmine has a Developer Guide, albeit a pretty sparse one. Might be worth noting that Redmine's REST API will become available in a month or so with the new 1.0 version.

Until then, maybe ask this guy what he did?

Answer 3

Have you considered using the Backlogs plugin for Redmine instead? http://github.com/relaxdiego/redmine_backlogs