Setting Up an Open Source Development Environment II

Before you read this I suggest you to read the first post of development environment. In that post development approach is detailed. Setting up the figured environment is a little bit challenging. There are lots of configuration, however I chose the shortest path (lazy way :) of configuring the open source tools.

First of all the starting point is gathering a virtual appliance of redmine.

1. Installing Base Configuration (Redmine, PHP, Apache, Git and SVN)

I used Turnkey with virtual box. Either it can be used via vmware. Download OVF file and import it to your virtual machine.

Download OVF (Vitual Appliance) of Redmine: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/redmine
Import to VM: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/docs/installation-appliances-virtualbox

2. Updating PHP

In Turnkey 12.0 Debian Squeeze Linux OS comes up. As I see, In this version of squeeze, PHP 5.3.3 version is the stable version mean while the stable version is 5.4.14 at php.net. The version of 5.3.3 has some troubles especially; array_walk_recursive and create_function functions. So, i decided to update the stable version of PHP. If you really want this follow the below link and compile the latest version of PHP from source.

http://www.howtoforge.com/building-php-5.4-from-source-on-debian-squeeze

3. Upgrading Redmine 1.4.4 to 2.3.0

Turnkey Redmine 12.0 comes with Redmine 1.4.4. That's a little bit old version of redmine. Here is a guide at the below link to upgrade Redmine version. In this guide redmine upgrade process described for Redmine 2.0.3 version but you can upgrade the latest version. I used 2.3.0 instead of 2.0.3 and it worked!

You can check out Redmine 2.3.0 version via SVN:

svn co http://svn.redmine.org/redmine/branches/2.3-stable redmine-2.3

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/forum/general/20120722/guide-how-upgrade-redmine-latest-version-203-painlessly

4. Install Redmine Agile Plug-in (Redmine Backlogs)

The last step of this post is integrating an agile plug-in to proceed agile processes. I did a survey about agile plug-ins for Redmine and come across various plug-ins. Firstly, I decided Agile Dwarf  to install but it has no support on Redmine 2.3.0. and I see Redmine Backlogs supporting the latest version of Redmine (2.3.0 for now). Anyway, I installed and see the interfaces and in action. Backlogs has a great speculation on agile methodologies and processes. You should follow installation steps at the following link.

http://www.redminebacklogs.net/en/installation.html

To Conclude;
The configuration is a little bit exhaustive but I think, the agile methodologies yields more time than this initial effort. The general completion of the agile and continuously integrated environment puzzle figured out below.

Environment Completion