Redmine

What plugins do you have that aren't 2.0 compatible? Myself and many in the community have been porting "dead" projects to 2.0.

2.0 is the future, 1.x will die with 1.4 if I'm not mistaken.

Just looking at the plugins directory here:

http://www.redmine.org/plugins

Unless there is somewhere else I should be looking? (It would be great if plugins could be sorted by what version of Redmine they are compatible with.)

I don't doubt that 2.0 is the future, but almost everything listed there is 1.x compatible only. Contacts, Google Apps login, Lightbox, Wiki HTML, and the list goes on. Not all of these are critical for us, of course, but it feels like we might be paying an early adopter penalty by using 2.0 right now. Are most 1.x plugin authors even interested in upgrading to 2.0 yet, or are a lot of people content to continue using 1.x for the next couple years? If I had a stable, customized 1.x server I don't think I'd bother upgrading for awhile.

Like I said, we're just getting started. I was just thinking it might be a better approach to start with 1.4 and wait for 2.0 to catch up?

Tony Wagner wrote:

Just looking at the plugins directory here:

http://www.redmine.org/plugins

Unless there is somewhere else I should be looking? (It would be great if plugins could be sorted by what version of Redmine they are compatible with.)

I don't doubt that 2.0 is the future, but almost everything listed there is 1.x compatible only. Contacts, Google Apps login, Lightbox, Wiki HTML, and the list goes on. Not all of these are critical for us, of course, but it feels like we might be paying an early adopter penalty by using 2.0 right now. Are most 1.x plugin authors even interested in upgrading to 2.0 yet, or are a lot of people content to continue using 1.x for the next couple years? If I had a stable, customized 1.x server I don't think I'd bother upgrading for awhile.

Like I said, we're just getting started. I was just thinking it might be a better approach to start with 1.4 and wait for 2.0 to catch up?

You'll have to check project pages sometimes or forks of the original project, for example, lightbox:

http://www.redmine.org/plugins/redmine_lightbox

Only Redmine 1.2?

https://github.com/zipme/redmine_lightbox

Nope, Redmine 2.0 support.

Pretty sure Redmine CRM (AKA: "Contacts") supports it (commercial product and all).

Google Apps support has a couple forks:

https://github.com/waj/redmine_google_apps/network

Mainly: the plugin pages are just poorly maintained, so your mileage will vary (especially being as if I fork a project, I cannot update it's plugin record).

You may just want to stick with 1.4, but I still wouldn't get attached to plugins that outright aren't being maintained, like Wiki HTML, which will probably never see the light of day with 2.0 at this rate.

1.4 -> 2.0 compatibility is pretty straightforward though.

you have to check the github issue tracker, many of the plugins have an 2.0 branch of fork.
Lightbox trunk is 2.0 compatible and 1.3 also

Is someone working on improving the plugin ecosystem? It's current state makes it somewhat chilling, I'm sure some people that, if told to "search github for a fork", discard redmine as a solution right away rather than give it a chance :-/

J N wrote:

Is someone working on improving the plugin ecosystem? It's current state makes it somewhat chilling, I'm sure some people that, if told to "search github for a fork", discard redmine as a solution right away rather than give it a chance :-/

Yeah we should be able to submit patches and such to already available plugins or something...

I'm exactly on the same boat. I'm really interested in:

• redmine-openid-selector
• openid-fix

I have created two repositories in github (mppfiles) and successfully migrated the first one to work with redmine 2.2.0. As of now I'm struggling with openid-fix.

Any kind of help is very appreciated!