Community Update #4

Added by Eric Davis on November 30, 2009 in Home Code Community Plugins

I have a lot of updates from Redmine for the Community Updates so I'm going to split them into a few posts. This update will cover events from July 13th through September 1st.

Code changes

Git Branch support

Adam Soltys created a patch to add branch support for the git SCM repository. This patch will let you browse through all of the branches in a git repository including the revisions and diffs. It's gone through a few bug fixes but I've had some great experience using it in production on my Redmine so far. This was committed in r2840 for Issue #1406.

If you would to try this out, my Stuff To Do project is public.

Exporting a custom issue query to PDF will use the custom columns

In r2841 Jean-Philippe Lang fixed a bug that prevented custom columns from working with the issue list PDF export.

Journal entry in Issue not displaying correctly

I added a small tweak to the Journal entries (Issue notes) so any lists are aligned properly when Gravatars are enabled or disabled. Committed in r2848 for Issue #3771.

Community Events

Wiki Extensions plugin

Haru Iida has made several updates to his Wiki Extensions plugin. It's under rapid development so if you're interested in it I'd recommend watching the forum thread about it.

Code Review plugin

Haru Iida also released a few new versions of the Code Review Plugin with a bunch of bug fixes and compatibility updates. You can find the release notes in these forum topics: Code Review Plugin 0.2.0 Released. and Code Review Plugin 0.2.7 Released..

NewIssueAlerts plugin

chantra created a new plugin called NewIssueAlerts. When it's installed, it will let you setup a Redmine project to add an email address into the new issue email notification. This would be useful to notify specific people whenever an issue is created. You can read about the plugin on the forum thread and download the plugin from Github

Global Filter Plugin

Kumudha Rangachari posted the Global Filter plugin which will display a list of your global filters on the Redmine homepage. This would be very useful if you use saved Queries a lot and need to navigate to them quickly. The wiki page has some documentation as well as the Readme file on the Github project.

It also includes a related change which I think is interesting. On the issue list there will be a new set of filters which can be used to further the issue list to show only specific projects. This is visible on the wiki page in the screenshot at the very bottom. Personally, I think this feature would be good to be included in the Redmine core.

Default Assigned User

Robert Chady created a plugin that adds the ability to automatically assign an issue to a default user when it's created. I'm thinking of using this on my smaller projects, where one person is responsible for the majority of the work. You can get the plugin from Github and read about it in Issue #482.

I'm thinking about writing these posts at the end of every month. Let me know if you like that idea in the comments below.

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Eric Davis

This blog is a place to learn about the Redmine Project Management application and it's community.

I am the founder of Little Stream Software, where I help project teams communicate easier by customizing Redmine. If your team could use a customized Redmine to suit your needs, please contact me.