Redmine Stuff-To-Do Plugin

This plugin allows Redmine users to prioritize tasks and arrange the assigned issues and projects in a specific order. It also allows administrators and managers to manage other users' workload.

The initial author is Eric Davis.

This plugin provides a number of useful features for Redmine issue management:

• Sorting and prioritizing of cross-project to-do lists
• Editing other users' lists for administrators
• Filtering of issues based on user, priority, status, or project
• Notification emails based on low workload
• Easy-to-use drag-and-drop interface
• Drag-and-drop time logging using the time grid

Installation

1. To install the plugin

   • Download the .ZIP archive, extract files and copy the plugin directory into #{REDMINE_ROOT}/plugins/stuff_to_do_plugin

   Or

   • Change you current directory to your Redmine root directory:

       cd {REDMINE_ROOT}
     

     Copy the plugin from GitHub using the following commands:

       git clone https://github.com/Undev/redmine-stuff-to-do-plugin.git plugins/stuff_to_do_plugin
     

2. Update the Gemfile.lock file by running the following commands:

     rm Gemfile.lock  
     bundle install
   

3. This plugin requires a migration. Run the following command to upgrade your database (make a database backup before):

    bundle exec rake redmine:plugins:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
   

4. Restart Redmine.

Now you should be able to see the plugin in Administration > Plugins.

Usage

The plugin adds the Stuff To Do link to the top menu in Redmine.

The Stuff To Do link leads to a page with three panes:

What I'm doing now

This pane lists 5 items a user is supposed to be working on. These should be the most important issues assigned to the user. As the user closes an issue (by specifying the Closed status or archiving a project), the next item is automatically moved to the top of the list in this pane.

What's recommended to do next

This pane lists extra issues used as overflow for the What I'm doing now pane.

What's available

This pane lists all the open issues assigned to the user or the projects visible to the user.

Workflow

The standard workflow for this plugin is as follows:

1. A user drags items from the What's available pane to the What I'm doing now and What's recommended to do next panes
2. The user prioritizes and sorts the items in the What I'm doing now and What's recommended to do next panes
3. The user works on the first item (at the top of the What I'm doing now list)
4. After the first item is complete (or blocked), the user proceeds to the second item

The Redmine administrator can also edit other users' lists:

Configuration

The plugin can send email notifications when the number of recommended items for a user reaches a certain threshold value (by default, 1). To change this value, go to Administration > Plugins, and click Configure.

You can also configure what data should be displayed as the list items on the Stuff To Do page and enable/disable the time grid.

Maintainers

Danil Tashkinov, github.com/nodecarter

License

This plugin is licensed under the GNU GPL v2. See COPYRIGHT.txt and GPL.txt for details.