Redmine

This, - in my case - highly-required functionality, is currently not available in the Redmine core. Though there exixts several patches (in two issues [ #1666 and #1676 ]) which were taken from the trunk around revision r1700 if I remember correctly. I think these could/should be rewritten to apply cleanly on release 0.8.0/x. These issues are also quite good discussed.

Here's my personal abstraction¹ of the whole grand-issue:

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General¶

There are in general two ways of implementation possible:

• based on implicit closing of versions based on all issues being closed
  • Patch #1676 only_show_incomplete_target_versions.patch implements this enhancement using this way.

• explicit closing of versions based on a flag set to the version (needs DB-change)
  • Patch #1666 explicit_version_completion_v2.patch implements this enhancement using this way.

Detailed¶

What these patches provide:

• Patch #1676 only_show_incomplete_target_versions.patch
  • limits target versions list to only show incomplete ones in following places:
    • New issue form
    • Edit issue form
    • Issues list - context menu for single issue
    • Bulk edit issues form

• Patch #1666 explicit_version_completion_v2.patch
  • it requires versions to be manually marked as completed (by adding a new column 'completed' to the DB)
  • it disallows targeting open issues to completed versions in following places:
    • New issue form
    • Edit issue form
    • Issues list - context menu for single issue
    • Bulk edit issues form

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I've personally chosen to implement the implicit-closing based patch for my own Redmine instance, which currently still runs an older trunk-export. It workes completely fine...

HTH,

Mischa.

¹ taken from my private Redmine instance on which I maintain my private projects...