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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

Chapter 8. Time Tracking

Considering the fact that time tracking functionality is provided by a project module, why didn't we review it along with other modules in Chapter 5, Managing Projects? Other project modules do not provide enough functionality to make users install Redmine for them, or they just have a much better competitor (for example, MediaWiki or DocuWiki is much better than the Wiki module, Invision Power Board or phpBB is better than the Forums module, and so on). On the contrary, the Time tracking module is complete and competitive (considering the functionality that is provided by the Redmine core and its other project modules,), and often enough it becomes one of the main reasons for using Redmine. Thus, I first used Redmine as a time tracking application.

But why is this chapter so late in the book? Despite its functionality, time tracking cannot be considered a primary feature of Redmine. Moreover, in practice, it is disabled in the majority of Redmine installations. In...