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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

Themes


Redmine themes are just CSS files, which often come with images. That is, Redmine's support for theming is very basic. However, this makes installing Redmine themes very easy.

Installing themes

All Redmine themes are represented as directories in the public/themes subdirectory of the Redmine root directory (which is /opt/redmine, if you used the tutorial from this book to install it). Thus, by default Redmine comes with two directories in public/themes, alternate and classic, these are Alternate and Classic Redmine themes correspondingly.

So to install a new theme, you need to create a directory for it in public/themes. The name of the theme can, actually, be anything (you can use the name recommended by the theme author or think out your own). The only requirement is that it must be in lower case.

After you have created a directory for the theme put all theme, files into it. Thus, the theme must come with at least stylesheets/application.css, but it also can contain images in the images...