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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

About the Author

Andriy Lesyuk is an open source evangelist, an enthusiastic, and passionate developer with more than 14 years of experience. He is skilled in Ruby, PHP, Perl, C, and more. His primary areas of interest are web development and Linux system development. He is also the author of more than 20 open source plugins for Redmine. He lives and works in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. His website is www.andriylesyuk.com.

Andriy started his career as an engineer in Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas, where he grew to be the Head of the Software and Networking Laboratory. For some time he worked as a freelancer developing custom Redmine plugins for companies world-wide, the most famous of which is oDesk. Recently, he joined the Kayako team which develops the world's leading helpdesk solution.