Redmine Autoclose Plugin

The plugin automatically closes issues that have been resolved but not closed for a specified interval.

Compatible with Redmine versions: 5.x, 4.x.

Configuration

The plugin provides a settings page where you can specify:

• Check interval: Number of days after which an issue is treated as stalled.
• Comment text: The comment posted to the issue.
• User: The user who posts the notification (Admin by default).
• Projects: A comma-separated list of project identifiers included in the check, or * for all projects.
• Resolved statuses: One or more statuses interpreted as resolved.
• Closed status: The status used as a closed status.
• Trackers: Selection of trackers used for an issue. If the list is empty, all trackers are valid.

Launching

There are two ways to initial an auto close, rake task and REST API.

The plugin provides two rake tasks:

Call bundle exec rake <task name> form Redmine root dir:

Tasks:

1. autoclose:autoclose
   Finds affected issues and updates them.

2. autoclose:preview
   Finds affected issues and prints them to STDERR without making any changes.

The plugin can be executed via REST API as follows:

Endpoints (GET and POST):

1. sys/autoclose_issues
   Finds affected issues and updates them.

2. sys/autoclose_issues_preview
   Finds affected issues and prints them to STDERR without making any changes.

Note: The API Key is used from the default sys/fetch_changesets API. Web service for repositories must by activated in the Administration menu (Administration - Settings - Repositories - Enable WS for repository management) and the generated API key (referred to "your service key" in the following documentation) will have to be used by the caller.

Crontab Entry

To automate the process, there are two options for creating a crontab:

Via rake task

0 1 * * * cd REDMINE_ROOT && bundle exec rake autoclose:autoclose RAILS_ENV=production

Via REST call

0 1 * * * curl -s -X POST -d "key=${REDMINE_API_KEY}" "${REDMINE_URL}/sys/autoclose_issues"

Replace or set REDMINE_URL and REDMINE_API_KEY accordingly.