Bluemine

Opt-in Redmine UX upgrades for teams that want more signal, less friction.

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Bluemine is a Manifest V3 browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that enhances Redmine with optional, independently toggleable improvements.

Getting Started

Install

Browser	Link
Firefox	Firefox Add-ons — Bluemine
Chrome / Edge / Brave	Install from the latest GitHub Release (see below)

Install from GitHub Release (Chrome/Edge/Brave)

1. Download the latest bluemine-extension-<version>.zip from the Releases page.
2. Extract the ZIP.
3. Go to chrome://extensions → enable Developer mode → Load unpacked → select the extracted folder.

Install from GitHub Actions (latest build)

1. Open the Build workflow runs.
2. Download the latest bluemine-extension-<version>.zip artifact.
3. Extract the ZIP and load as an unpacked extension:
   • Chrome/Edge/Brave: chrome://extensions → Developer mode → Load unpacked
   • Firefox: about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox → Load Temporary Add-on → pick manifest.json

No build step required.

Prerequisites

• Chrome/Edge/Brave or Firefox 121+
• Access to a Redmine instance
• Optional: GitLab Personal Access Token for MR integration

Features

Feature	What it does
GitLab MR integration	Shows merge request status on Agile board cards and issue pages.
Enhanced Agile board	Soft-reloads the board in place after actions (preserving scroll), restores collapsed swimlane state across refreshes, and adds a collapse/expand toolbar.
Enhanced Issue edit page	Adds small issue edit-page improvements, starting with an Assign random assignee button.
Shift+Hover selection	Hold Shift and hover over cards to select them for bulk actions.
Command Palette	Keyboard-driven bulk commands on selected cards without leaving the page.
Start Claude Code	Adds a button to Agile board cards that opens a deeplink launching Claude Code with the task's title and description.
Fix with Autofix	Adds a command palette action that dispatches selected issues to an AI task-runner pipeline.

Command Palette

Press Space while one or more cards are selected (no text input focused). The palette opens with options fetched live from Redmine.

Categories

Category	What it does
Status	Change status of selected cards
Assignee	Reassign selected cards
Tracker	Change tracker of selected cards
Target version	Set target version of selected cards
Reviewer	Set reviewer field
Merged	Set merged-by field
Reviewed	Set reviewed-by field
Bulk Edit	Open the Redmine bulk edit form
Copy	Copy selected card IDs to clipboard

Keyboard shortcuts

Status abbreviations — type to jump directly to a status:

Shortcut	Status
cl	Closed
new	New
ip	In Progress
rs	Resolved
fb	Feedback
rj	Rejected
oh	On Hold
co	Confirmed

Category prefixes — type to filter to a category, then add a space and continue typing to filter by name within it:

Prefix	Category
as	Assignee
re	Reviewer
tr	Tracker
tv	Target version
mg	Merged
rd	Reviewed

Person name abbreviation — first letter of first name + first letter of last name + last letter of last name:

• "Anna Berg" → abg
• "Erik Holm" → ehm

Works standalone or after a category prefix (e.g. as mak). Abbreviation matches rank above substring and fuzzy matches.

Navigation

Key	Action
↑ / ↓	Navigate the list
Tab	Queue the highlighted command as a chip
Enter	Execute the highlighted command (or all queued chips at once)
Backspace	Remove last queued chip (when input is empty)
Escape	Close without executing

Batch mode

Tab queues commands as chips. Multiple commands from different categories are merged into a single request on Enter. Each category allows only one chip at a time — queuing a second command in the same category replaces the first. Bulk Edit and Copy IDs cannot be chained with other commands.

Configuration

Open the extension popup to configure:

• Feature toggles (GitLab MR, Enhanced Agile board, Enhanced Issue edit page, Shift+Hover, Command Palette, Start Claude Code, Fix with Autofix)

• GitLab Base URL (https://gitlab.example.com)

• GitLab API Key (glpat-...)

• Project mapping: one redmine-project-slug=gitlab_project_id per line

• Command Palette: Copy IDs separator (default: &)

• Start Claude Code: builds a Claude Code deep link (claude-cli://open) from simple fields — no URL to hand-write:

  • Project folders — one redmine-project-slug=/local/path per line. The folder for the current board's project becomes the session's working directory; unmapped projects open in your home directory.
  • Prompt prefix (optional) — text added before the task's title and description

  The task's title and description always fill the prompt (capped at 5,000 characters). Requires Claude Code v2.1.91+, which registers the claude-cli:// handler on first run.

• Fix with Autofix: pipeline execution URL (https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/350/trigger/pipeline) and AI Task Runner pipeline access token. The Redmine project slug is taken from the board URL.

Permissions and Privacy

Permission	Purpose
storage	Persist feature toggles and settings locally
activeTab	Operate on the current tab
host_permissions (http://*/*, https://*/*)	Support self-hosted Redmine and GitLab instances

No analytics or telemetry. External network calls are limited to the configured GitLab API (when enabled) and the GitHub Releases API (popup update indicator).

Build and Release

CI via GitHub Actions (workflow):

• Triggered on push, v* tags, and manual dispatch.
• Packages the repository and uploads bluemine-extension-<version>.zip as a workflow artifact.
• On tagged commits at main HEAD, also creates a GitHub Release with the ZIP attached and auto-generated release notes (commit messages since the previous tag).

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.

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