Precise Redmine burndown chart

[singalen]

Originally published at Fiberglass flowers. You can comment here or there.

I’m thinking of precise Redmine burdown chart, which is not so simple.

• It has to build burdown chart for a given sprint (Version in Redmine).
• It has to account issues added to Version and removed from during the sprint.
• It, after all, has to account for what is considered “closed” status, which might be one of non-stock, custom statuses.

There are couple of Redmine addons, but for now I’m precautious about installing them. They are:

• ScrumAlliance Burndown is outdated and unsupported for now;
• RedmineBacklogs looks very promising and tasty.

For now, I do it by hand. I put together a SQL query to get me the data:

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