Mylyn & Redmine Integration

Question

I'm trying to get Mylyn and Redmine work together so I can manage tasks right inside Eclipse. I saw this on redmine wiki http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/HowTo_Mylyn but I think it's for the old version of Mylyn.

I can't find the Generic Web Connector plugin for Mylyn but there's this Web templates plugin. I think that one replaced the Generic Web Connector. But it's quite different from the screenshots posted at the Redmine wiki. There's no Task URL, New Task URL, etc.

Answer 1

Here is what you are looking for:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/redmin-mylyncon/

A Mylyn connector specially for RedMine. It works fine with eclipse ganymede.

The update site is: http://redmin-mylyncon.sourceforge.net/update-site/N/

Answer 2

Here are the steps to perform integration between Eclipse Mylyn and Redmine. I assume that Eclipse, Mylyn and Redmine are already installed, the latter somewhere in $REDMINE_HOME. Tested with Eclipse 3.7 and Redmine 1.2.1.

Summarily, you need to install an Eclipse plugin AND a Redmine plugin.

1. Go to $REDMINE_HOME/vendor/plugins and run

   git clone git://redmin-mylyncon.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/redmin-mylyncon/redmine-mylyn-connector

2. (Re)start the server, and in Redmine under Administration/Plugins the Mylyn Connector Plugin should be listed

3. Again in Redmine, under Administration/Settings/Authentication, check the "Enable REST web service" field

4. In Eclipse, install the Eclipse connector via its update site

   http://redmin-mylyncon.sourceforge.net/update-site/N/

5. Create your repository and check that it connects, then you are good to go!