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Redmine Cookbook

By : Shamasis Bhattacharya
Book Image

Redmine Cookbook

By: Shamasis Bhattacharya

Overview of this book

In a variety of online project management tools, Redmine markets itself as offering flexibility. Choosing the right management tool can mean the difference between the success and failure of a project. Flexible project management tools bend themselves to fit your needs, whether that’s communication regarding a simple project, or collaboration, or more complex project methodology such as SCRUM, or an issue-code relationship, or the need of different methodology for your project. Whether you are project manager or system administrator, this book provides valuable recipes to get the best possible performance out of your team, organization, infrastructure, and Redmine itself. Through a series of carefully crafted recipes covering the nitty-gritty of Redmine, you’ll be guided through the installation of Redmine, as well as how to fine-tune and customize your Redmine installation. Finally, we walk you through integrating Redmine with other softwares and databases like Tortoise SVN and Visual Studio and troubleshooting Redmine.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Redmine Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using the issue-code relation


Issue-code relation is a great tool to achieve a goal of knowing who did what, when, and why in the source code of your project. The perfect scenario would be that each of your features is nicely described, documented, and each code revision (not too many of them) is clearly related to a feature. Let's say that 10 years after the project is done, a client asks for several modifications to the software, and after a simple Redmine search, you immediately know who developed these features initially, and you re-engage them to make the newly requested modifications, saving time, money, and nerves that you would spend without it.

Note

Issue-code does not have to relate only to software projects; it can be applied to any kind of project involving the usage of version management system that is supported by Redmine.

Getting ready

Make sure that you have Redmine installed with Enabled SCM for a version control management system that you prefer to use. If you don't have, for...