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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

Applying advanced issue-code relationships


To apply and use an advanced issue-code relationship, as explained in the Using the issue-code relation recipe from Chapter 3, Project Management with Redmine, Redmine needs to be configured to fetch changes automatically, and it requires to be triggered in some way. By default, it is done by the user clicking the repository tab. But this way, we can have significant idle time, even days or weeks, before somebody clicks on the repository tab and have Redmine automatically fetch commits, update statuses, and send e-mails, which will invoke other users to start developing their code per task, or testing it. Such a scenario is possible if you are not on a tight schedule or running some methodology, which involves clicking the repository tab on your project's main menu several times per day.

Getting ready

You will require administration privileges and access to your source control management's tool working directory. You will also probably require a root...