Future of this project

[CSCSxx]

Hello,
as hard as it sounds, but a very simple, open-ended question: is this project dying here? An answer would be great so we can prepare and plan accordingly...

[smap9]

sadly it looks very dying. And I could not find any active fork https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html#https://github.com/a-ono/redmine_ckeditor

Anybody using or knowing a good alternative?

[mmundi72]

We switched a couple of months ago to the following editor:
https://github.com/taqueci/redmine_wysiwyg_editor

It's more stable and reliable, but it's not fully supporting HTML. The content will be stored as Markdown or Textile depending on the settings. We are using Markdown as this supports some additional formatting as well as some basic HTML.

[smap9]

@mmundi72 how did you migrate from html to textile?

[mmundi72]

@smap9 : we used the following rake command provided by the plugin (well we migrated to markdown!):

rake redmine_ckeditor:migrate RAILS_ENV=production FROM=html TO=textile

Depending on the complexity of the html it could be that you loose some formatting. I recommend to perform some test migrations to check if there are any issues. We used quite a lot of wiki pages for documentation purposes and the major issues we had is with complex tables - that's why we migrated to markdown.

[CSCSxx]

As a test, I simply did not install the CK Editor in version 5 and then set the internal text renderer to "Common Markdown (Github Flavored)". All content is displayed correctly 90% of the time.
The Redmine WYSIWG editor currently does not (yet) support this text formatting - it also lacks the convenient integration of images, as we are used to from the CK editor (image upload function) - In the long term, it would be waiving the CK - Editor pity

[a-ono]

I have no plans to develop features because I am not using Redmine anymore.
I will try to support Redmine 5.0, but pull requests are welcome.

[michaelstanek]

At RedmineX, we are thinking of taking over the CK Editor plugin for Redmine as we are a Redmine dev company which can maintain the plugin indefinitely. Please vote if you want us to take over at https://www.redmine-x.com/redmine-x-plugins/roadmap/ck-editor-take-over

[blackhase]

@smap9 : we used the following rake command provided by the plugin (well we migrated to markdown!):

rake redmine_ckeditor:migrate RAILS_ENV=production FROM=html TO=textile

Depending on the complexity of the html it could be that you loose some formatting. I recommend to perform some test migrations to check if there are any issues. We used quite a lot of wiki pages for documentation purposes and the major issues we had is with complex tables - that's why we migrated to markdown.

I have testing this, but i become this error:
Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - pandoc --from "html" --to "textile"

Do you have any advice?

[blackhase]

Hello,
i'm need a Workaround.
My images are not displayed.
Although correctly stored in the database with img tag and src,
but into HTML is source empty.

Can anyone help me?

[michaelstanek]

Dear Redminers, we took over this popular plugin at redmine.org and we'll be maintaining it from now on. It is already Redmine 5 compatible.