[QGIS-Developer] Sign in options for readmine

[Stefan Steiger]

Redmine also has a REST-API (JSON & XML).  
Since github also has an API (and also hooks), you could also synchronize GitHub/GitLab issues with Redmine and vice-versa. 
All you'd need to do is add custom-field on the redmine issues, so you could determine which issues are already synchronized. 
Potentially add a custom-datetime-field "last_synchronized", if synchronization/updates should work both ways.
Then you can add a service/daemon to hourly run over all redmine issues and synchronize them to github. 
And then pull all github issues and feed them into redmine. 
If you could store the redmine-issue-id into a github issue, that should be fairly simple. 
Via hooks you might also be capable of live-synchronizing github issues as they are created. 

That way you could receive issues via github, and still only have to look at redmine. 
I've worked with redmine in the past, and redmine has web-service support for custom-fields. 

The only question would be if the github-api provides custom fields ? 



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Von: QGIS-Developer [mailto:qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] Im Auftrag von Jürgen E. Fischer
Gesendet: Montag, 19. Februar 2018 10:51
An: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org; qgis-psc <qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org>
Betreff: Re: [QGIS-Developer] Sign in options for readmine

Hi Nathan,

On Mon, 19. Feb 2018 at 10:46:34 +1000, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
> If we don't move off Redmine in the near future (although I do a see a 
> GitLab/Github move inevitable) what sign in options do we have that we 
> can implement for our sites?  If we can't move off Redmine it would be 
> nice if we could make the sign in process for issues.qgis.org and 
> plugins.qgis.org a more pleasant one.
 
> Is it possible to wire in Gtihub, Facebook, Google, and all those 
> kinds of providers into the site? If so what kind of work is required 
> for that to happen.

Should be.  There are plugins for redmine to do this (github at least; also
oauth) - but we didn't have enough time in Essen to get them to fly after the migration and people wanted to start working on tickets - and this wasn't revisited AFAIK after we put the new instance into production.

BTW osgeoids are not required for redmine - you can register directly, but for uploading plugins you need one (and if you don't already have one the mantra; which you get quickly if you use a mail address that suggest that it's real and that you will not spam - for gmail.com, hotmail etc. we first try to establish that the person is real - so that might take longer).  Recently we had two redmine tickets issued by (a) spammer(s).

While I agree that the mantra could be a large enough obstacle to turn people away from filing tickets (hence it's not used there), I don't think the same applies for plugins.


Jürgen

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