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POany way to synchonise between Redmine(or other issue trackers) and a plain text todo list?
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  1. POany way to synchonise between Redmine(or other issue trackers) and a plain text todo list?
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    copied!<p>I would like to access a Redmine taskbase via a simple text based interface - wondering what the shortest path would be (minimum investment/development). </p> <hr> <p>Right now, this boils down to 2 use cases/phases:</p> <ol> <li><p>Import a batch of tasks into <a href="http://redmine.org" rel="nofollow">Redmine</a> from simple, wiki-based, bulletted TODO list, ie. plain text content. This is more of a one-off task, so a quick and dirty solution would be fine.</p></li> <li><p>Later, some smooth two-way synchrosation would be great.. E.g. edit loads of tasks via some friendly plain text (or XML) in an editor, or scripting where I could manipulate all of them with simple text processing; then synchronise with Redmine and commit them back.</p></li> </ol> <p>Any ideas on the easiest way to achieve these?</p> <p>I'd prefer an external solution (i.e not touching the server), especially for the one-off import case; something like a neat IDE/editor/client, or a standalone Ruby script (e.g using the RM API). If an appropriate RM plugin would be available, I would not resist giving it a try (can get root access from our lovely IT support:).. Current ideas:</p> <ul> <li>Emacs/<a href="http://orgmode.org" rel="nofollow">Org-mode</a>, looks like a great combination of a cool task manager UI and full plain text power. It seems rich enough to capture tags, states as well. This artice looks promising <a href="http://labs.creativecommons.org/2010/11/10/bridging-public-bugtrackers-and-local-tasklists/" rel="nofollow">Orgmode and Roundup: Bridging public bugtrackers and local tasklists</a>, although not exactly a perfect match. </li> <li>org-mode parser in Ruby, could be used in an script with redmine-api access, or - worst case(for me, right now)- in newly developed RM plugin.. This looks like a good start: <a href="http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-ruby.html" rel="nofollow">org-ruby</a></li> <li>export RM->XML, process file, import XML->RM... not sure if this is supported? I guess it's always possible to talk to the DB directly, but I'd prefer to avoid that.</li> </ul> <p>Actually, I'm also interested a similar solution for Bugzilla.</p>
 

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