RedTask

This repository contains a bash command line tool which can interact with the redmine API, in order to create and modify issues.

Dependencies

In order to run this tool you must install jq.

Usage

redtask <options> <ids or collections> <filters> <command> <reports>

options

-p <project id>
    project id is the numeric id of a certain project

ids or collections

100,101,102
    ids can be provided as comma separated list of ids

ids:<custom command>
    ids can be created by custom commands which perform a custom query on the
    redmine in order to receive some ids

json:<custom command>
    json content can be provided by an external command which will perform a 
    query on the redmine api

filters

assign:<user id>
    filter for issues which are assigned to the specified user

commands

done
    set status of issue to done

reports

lines
    print a line for each issue

hints

recover lost data from journals

  redtask json:backlog feature load_details pretty >all_features.json
  cat all_features.json | jq -r -c '.[] | "{\"id\":\(.id),\"payload\":\([.journals[] | .details[0].new_value | select(contains("deliverable")) ] | .[-1:]|.[])},"' > lost_values.json
  cat lost_values.json | jq 'map( del(.payload.tags))' > cleand_lost.json
  cat cleand_lost.json  | jq 'map(.deliverable=.payload.deliverable |.requirements=.payload.requirements) | map(del(.payload))' > lost3.json
  cat lost3.json | jq -r '.[]|"redtask \(.id) mo deliver:\"\(.deliverable)\""' >commands
  sh commands
  cat lost3.json | jq -r '.[]|"redtask \(.id) mo require:\"\(.requirements)\""' > commands
  sh commands