Redmine Trackmine Plugin¶ ↑

Redmine is an excellent multi-project issue tracking tool focussing on collaboration in the implementation and integration parts of software development. Pivotal Tracker, on the other hand, is a superb planning tool and extremely well suited for requirements capturing and customer feedback.

The Trackmine plugin provides simple but effective bi-directional communication between Pivotal Tracker and Redmine by outsourcing the workflow between Pivotal’s “Started” and “Finished” states to Redmine. The triggers for teleporting between the tools are starting a story in Pivotal and closing an issue in Redmine. The workflow in Redmine remains customizable and can be tailored to individual needs. Step by step configuration tutorial

UPGRADED to work with Pivotal Tracker API v5 and Redmine 3

Features¶ ↑

Starting a story in a Pivotal Tracker automatically creates a Redmine issue with status “Accepted”.
Updating a story in a Pivotal Tracker updates the Redmine issue attributes (subject, description, status).
Closing a Redmine issue finishes the Pivotal Tracker story.
Mapping between Pivotal Tracker and Redmine attributes can be configured

Setup¶ ↑

Installation¶ ↑

In Redmine app run:

$ bin/plugin install https://github.com/capita/redmine_trackmine.git

or clone it into /vendor/plugins/

$ git clone git@github.com:capita/redmine_trackmine.git

Install gems

$ bundle install

Run plugin migrations

$ rake redmine:plugins:migrate

Configuration- Redmine side¶ ↑

Make sure you have following custom fields for Redmine Issue:

‘Pivotal Project ID’ (field_format: int, Trackers: Bug, Support, Feature) .
‘Pivotal Story ID’ (field_format: int, Trackers: Bug, Support, Feature) .

And there is IssueStatus ‘Accepted’

Add valid Pivotal Tracker credentials in [redmine_app]/config/trackmine.yml

Syntax:

[redmine_email]:
  email: [pivotal_tracker_email]
  password: [pivotal_tracker_password]

super_user:
  # You can use an api token or email/password for the PT api.
  token: [pivotal_tracker_api_token]

error_notification:
  recipient: [email_for_error_notifications]
  from: "[information to emails FROM field]"

trackmine.yml

foouser@example.net:
  token: 1234

baruser@example.net:
  email: baruser2@fake.net
  password: 2222

super_user:
  email: admin@net.org
  password: 1234

error_notification:
  recipient: errors@examplet.net
  from: "Trackmine Notifications <no-reply@example.net>"

Users mentioned in trackmine.yml should have administration rights in redmine. The user named ‘super_user’ should have access to all Pivotal Tracker projects you want to map to. It might be the Pivotal Tracker admin. Its credentials are used to handle Pivotal Tracker hooks.

Configuration- Pivotal Tracker side¶ ↑

Add Web Hook Url pointing to your Redmine app. To do that:

On your project page choose ‘Project -> Configure Integrations’
Find Activity Web Hook section
In ‘Web Hook Url’ put [redmine_app_url]/pivotal_activity.json

Example:

http://my-company-redmine-site.org/pivotal_activity.json

Usage¶ ↑

Mapping¶ ↑

As a Redmine administrator go to ‘Administration -> Trackmine’ section.
Use link ‘Add mapping’
Select Redmine project and Pivotal project (or label)

Mapping Configuration¶ ↑

You can configure:

Mapping between Pivotal story estimation points and Redmine estimated_hours

Default:

1 point  => 1 hour
2 points => 4 hours
3 points => 10 hours

Mapping between Pivotal story_types and Redmine trackers