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Mastering Redmine

By : Andriy Lesyuk
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Mastering Redmine

By: Andriy Lesyuk

Overview of this book

<p>Redmine is well-known as one of the best open source project management applications. But, it's also one of the best project hosting and issue tracking solutions. In addition it incorporates Wiki, repository management, forums, time tracking, and more. This book reveals the power of Redmine and manifests its exceptional flexibility and customizability.<br /><br />Mastering Redmine is a comprehensive guide which covers a wide variety of topics: from configuration to writing simple plugins, from issue reporting to managing issue lifecycles, from writing simple Wiki pages to designing rich web content using the Wiki syntax, from quick installation to&nbsp; deep customization, and more.<br /><br />This book resembles a learning tutorial. It imitates the self-learning process so that you first understand the basics before we dig deeper into the advanced concepts.<br /><br />You will first read about possible setups. Then, you will choose an appropriate setup to install and configure. The book runs through the main features of Redmine and shows how it can be effectively used as project management, issue and time tracking solution. Once you are familiar with all the essential features of Redmine, you will start exploring advanced concepts such as integration with other applications, customizing Redmine, and using various Redmine plugins.<br /><br />This book will help you master Redmine by unleashing it's core functionality .</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Redmine
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 6. Time Tracking

Some readers may wonder why time tracking functionality is going to be reviewed in a separate chapter. If time tracking is provided by a small project module, then why have we not reviewed it along with other modules in the previous chapter? Other project modules, except issue tracking, do not provide enough functionality to make users install Redmine for them or have way better competitors (for example, MediaWiki or DocuWiki for the Wiki module; Invision Power Board or phpBB for the forums module, and so on). On the contrary, the time tracking module is complete, competitive (considering the functionality provided by Redmine core and its other project modules), and often enough becomes the main reason for using Redmine. Thus, I, personally, first used Redmine as a time tracking application.

So, in this chapter, we will speak about time tracking with Redmine. We will also mention its other functionality, especially the issue tracking, as Redmine time tracking is based...