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Mastering Redmine - Second Edition

By : ANDRIY LESYUK
Book Image

Mastering Redmine - Second Edition

By: ANDRIY LESYUK

Overview of this book

Redmine is not only one of the popular open source project management applications but also one of the best project hosting and issue tracking solutions. This book is an update of our previous successful edition, Mastering Redmine. This book is a comprehensive guide that will give you a detailed practical understanding on how to effectively manage, monitor and administer complex projects using Redmine. You will get familiar with the concept of Issue Tracking and will get to know why and what makes Redmine one of the best issue trackers. Another main part of Redmine functionality, which is Managing projects shows why this is one of the best applications for project hosting. Furthermore, you will learn more about Redmine rich text formatting syntax, access control and workflow and time Tracking. Towards the end, you will unleash the power of custom fields and guides to show how to customize Redmine without breaking upgrade compatibility. By the end of the book, you will have a deep practical understanding on how to effectively monitor and manage large scale and complex projects using Redmine.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Redmine Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Quick Syntax Reference
Index

Closing a project


Some companies may work on many small projects. In several years, such companies end up with a huge list of projects, the majority of which are not used anymore (that is, there are no new issues, files, Wiki pages, updates on forums, and so on). However, removing such projects can be unacceptable as some of them can potentially be renewed in future, others can be forked and some data of the original project can still be needed for a fork, the data of others can be needed for reference, and so on. At the same time, leaving such projects in the list can also be problematic, as in that case, the project list can become unusable. This is when the Close link on the project's Overview page comes in handy.

When clicked on, and after a confirmation, this link puts the projects into a read-only state. In this state, all project information remains available and all read permissions are preserved, but nothing can be changed or added. Also, the Overview page of the project gets this...