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Map SVN users to Redmine users.

Hi, we are starting to use Redmine as our task tracking tool and for some reasons we can't have same SVN and Redmine user logins. How can we map SVN user names to Redmine user names via configuration files or something else. As all commits now are being performed by Anonymous so we can't trac who was the committer for revision. Any ide...

Time tracking for Redmine?

We just deployed Redmine, but got one problem. There is no easy way to track time spent for project/bug. There is a Redmine Client app, but it is not working with latest redmine. If a developer is not included in single project, app crashes with 403 error, can't edit time correctly (http://server/projects/12/timelog/edit), problem with ...

Which Issue Tracker is suitable for a VPS?

Hi, I'm hosting my application on a Linode, but is hosted on a Tomcat instance, which uses most of the RAM. I also have Apache installed, so I can front Mercurial, and I believe a bug tracker is a must, however I can't decide on which is best, given scarce resources. JIRA seems to be out of the question, so I've been deciding on either ...

Wrapping class method via alias_method_chain in plugin for Redmine

I am not sure if this problem is a general Rails problem or Redmine specific. There is a class User which has a class method try_to_login. I wrote a module containing a method_alias_chain to wrap that method and provide additional functionality. This works fine if I go into the console and call try_to_login. My wrapper will be executed ...

How to set a template for a new issue in Redmine?

The goal is to make users be more specific when reporting a bug. Ususally I get a messy report "It doesn't work, please help ASAP!" from a user, so I keep asking the same questions each time -- "The why, the who-what-when, the where, and the how..." Instead, I want to set a template for a new issue, something like this: What pag...

Internal bug tracking tickets - Redmine, Trac, or JIRA

I've been looking at setting up Redmine, Trac, or JIRA to track issues. I want to be able to have my development team create internal tickets that are never seen by clients, while clients can create/edit tickets that are seen by the internal team. From the Trac documentation, you can set permissions to create or view tickets, but it do...

Redmine, can't see new Issue Status

I added a new staus to redmine, but i cant see it in dropdown list, even when manager is logged in. What can be wrong? Thanks ...

Wiki problem with anchor

I'm developing a project based on a wiki. One of its functionality is assigning anchors to heading (h1. h2.,etc) and I want to link a word to one of this anchors so when it's clicked the page automatically scrolls down to the correct heading. As it says on the help page the anchor should be used as following: Redmine assigns an anch...

Starting with Redmine locally - how easy is migration to server later?

I am starting on a number of big PHP projects which I need Bug Tracking, Wiki and Subversion integration capabilities for. I used to have a Virtual Server running Windows Server and a Trac/SVN installation for this, but I am planning a relocation to another country this year, so I want to close that server down and move the functionali...

Anything speaking against the bitnami.org Ruby/Rails/Redmine Stack?

I am looking to set up a Redmine server on a Windows virtual machine on my local workstation. (Background in this related question.) I have zero knowledge of Ruby nor Rails, and while Redmine may be the opportunity to dip into those platforms somewhat, my first goal is to get it running as quickly and easily as possible. For that, I am...

Redmine connecting to SVN through SSL

I am having trouble connecting Redmine to a locally hosted subversion repository using SSL. I suspect it's the self-signed certificate that usually triggers a warning in the SVN client and browser. When I try to connect to the local repo through SSL in Redmine, I get a red "Revision not available" error. When I try connecting through ...

Automating custom field creation in Redmine

I want to write a plugin for redmine that will depend on quite a few custom fields, so I would like to create the custom fields automatically. Ideally within the plugin code, or if not by a script I can run when I install the plugin - I really don't want to have to create 10+ fields through the web interface when I set this up, especiall...

Can I create a cross-project source reference in redmine?

If you have two separate projects that is somehow connected. How can one make a reference to the source of the other project? For referencing the source of your own project you use: source:some/file But since I want to refer to code in another project my thought was that I could write something like: other_project:source:some/file ...

Request for one particular image ends in 502 bad gateway and proxy error

I have the Ruby on Rails-based application Redmine (based on the BitNami redmine package) running on a Windows virtual server. It runs Apache, Mongrel, Ruby, and rails. When, in a HTML page I am building a template for, I request a static image resource named /templates/mytemplate/images/bkg.jpg - around 15 kilobytes big - I get a 502 B...

Changing Redmine URL structure and adding other domains

I have set up a Redmine installation on a Windows server using the BitNami stack. I would like to change the path of the URL that is used to address redmine at the moment (www.example.com/redmine/...) if possible without physically relocating the installation. map additional subdomains to certain projects (www.example2.com pointing...

How install gems locally?

I have no internet connection on server machine, so I need to install gems locally. I tried gem install rails-2.3.4.gem But, I'm getting errors. How Can I install gems locally. Thanks. ...

Redmine error undefined local variable 'usage' when recieving email

I posted this on the Redmine forum about 20 days ago but am having no luck finding an answer, so I thought I'd see if I can find some love here: Somewhere during an upgrade to RM I lost the ability to have RM receive email. It was running just beautifully on 8.5. Some while back I upgraded and was not using the receive email feature fo...

How to monkeypatch Issue model in Redmine from a plugin, specifically redmine_task_board

I'm trying to add a custom sort method to the Issue.rb model in Redmine from the redmine_task_board plugin. My commit on github I don't know if this is a lack of knowledge about Rails plugins on my part or something specific I have to do with Redmine. Redmine 0.8.6.stable I want this method so that when I show the Task Board show met...

Create default links to server-side logs

Is there a way to pre-populate a user's documents list with server-generated log files? A way to offer any files at a given path? Is this a job for plugins or native to some settings config? thx ...

Howto - Running Redmine on mongrel as a service on windows

I use Redmine on Mongrel as a project manager and I use a batch file (start-redmine.bat) to start the redmine in mongrel. There are 2 issues with my setup: 1. I have a running IIS on the server that occupies the HTTP port (80) 2. The start-redmine.bat must be periodically checked to see if it's stopped after a restart that is caused by w...