RESTmine SCRUM Board

A Scrum Board based on the REST API of Redmine.

• built upon the REST-API of Redmine 3.3
• requires set-up of two custom issue fields
  • Sprint Number
  • Story Points
• client and server part
  • hide the API-key server-side & do some pre-calculations (velocity)
  • server is written on NodeJS, client is a VueJS application

Usage

1. Copy ./config/config.dist.json to ./config/config.json
   • fill "server" sub-key of "redmine" settings (e.g. with https://redmine.acme.org)
2. Enable Redmine REST API
   1. click Administration link on top left
   2. go to tab API
   3. enable REST web service
3. Gather Redmine API key
   1. click My account link on top right
   2. click Show within the sidebar section API access key
   3. copy the API key to ./config/config.json
4. Setup custom Sprint Number field
   1. click Administration link on top left
   2. click Custom fields
   3. create new custom field on type Issues (see screenshot)
      • create as format Integer
      • call it e.g. Sprint number
      • choose all trackers
   4. after pressing Save, copy the numeric ID from the URL to customSprintNumberFieldId of ./config/config.json
5. Setup custom Story Points field
   1. click Administration link on top left
   2. click Custom fields
   3. create new custom field on type Issues (see screenshot)
      • create as format Integer or use format Key/value list (this would enable you to enforce certain Fibonacci numbers: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13)
      • call it e.g. Story points
      • choose all trackers, except Bug (only features receive an estimation)
   4. after pressing Save, copy the numeric ID from the URL to customStoryPointsFieldId of ./config/config.json
6. Configure Issue statuses as required; possible changes might include:
   • a new status To Test, To Review and/or To Deploy
7. Run
   • docker-compose build && docker-compose up
8. Open: http://localhost:8083

Screenshots

Issues Default View

Within ./config/config.json you can define the mapping from Redmine issue statuses to SCRUM Board statuses:

   ...
   "columns": {
     "new": {
       "abbr": "new",
       "name": "New",
       "statuses": [
         "New",
         "Accepted",
         "Reopened",
         "Feedback Provided"
       ]
     },
     ...

Issues Project View

Alternative view where each Redmine project is represented as horizontal swimlane.

Distribution

Gives you various statistics about workload distribution.

Velocity

History of development speed.

Settings

Change the Sprint number.

HTTPS

If run behind a HTTPS terminator, you have to offload the secure WebSocket (ws://) connection as well. On Nginx you can this via:

location /ws/ {
    // this proxies the wss:// connection to ws://
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8083;
    proxy_http_version 1.1;
    proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
    proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
}

Development

• yarn install - fetch dependencies
• yarn dev-server - runs ./src/server.js at port 8080
  • constant API_URL is defined in ./build/webpack.dev.conf.js
  • ...and used in ./src/client.js
• yarn dev-client - runs a Webpack-Dev-Server with Hot Reload

ToDo

• Issues tab
  • drag & drop issues across status
  • drag & drop users onto issues
• Distribution tab
  • show doneRatio - this is complicated as the spent_hours field is only available in issues-detail view, but not within issues-list view