Documentation - Redmine Silencer¶

Suppress issue notifications

The Redmine Silencer plugin is a Redmine plugin. It suppresses email notifications (at will) when creating and updating issues.

• Table of contents
• Documentation - Redmine Silencer
  • Getting Started
    • Downloading the plugin
    • Restart Redmine
  • Plugin Usage
  • Uninstall
  • Changelog
  • Licence

Getting Started¶

This quick introduction shows you the most convenient way for trying out the plugin with your Redmine instance.

Downloading the plugin¶

Navigate into the plugins directory of your Redmine instance.

Download the latest development state as redmine_silencer folder into your plugin directory.

cd (REDMINE_ROOT_DIR)/plugins
git clone  -b master https://github.com/xmera-circle/redmine_silencer.git

Restart Redmine¶

Navigate into the root directoy.

Run the restart Rake task. This will touch restart.txt in order to force Redmine's application server to restart and load
everything from scratch. This will register the new plugin.

cd (REDMINE_ROOT_DIR)
rake restart

Plugin Usage¶

Navigate to the plugin configuration page and change the settings if required.

Check your role permission settings and add the permission to suppress email notification where useful.

Find the checkbox for disabling notifications when creating new issues or updating existing ones.

Uninstall¶

Redmine Silencer does not change the database structure but adds data to the settings table. Therfore, you should follow this instructions.

Changelog¶

All notable changes to this plugin will be reported in the changelog.

Licence¶

Copyright © 2011 - 2013 Alex Shulgin
Copyright © 2012 - 2018 Tobias Fischer
Copyright © 2022-2023 Liane Hampe (liaham@xmera.de), xmera Solutions GmbH.

This plugin is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This plugin is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.