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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

Forks


In 2011, one of the most active Redmine developers, Eric Davis, with a group of other contributors from a company named Finnlabs, forked Redmine into ChiliProject. Unfortunately, this project was recently discontinued.

However, while working on ChiliProject, Finnlabs decided to make a custom version of this application. Eventually, having understood that ChiliProject was not good enough for them, they made their fork public and named it OpenProject. Right now, this fork is actively developed and already has quite a large community. Finnlabs also changed the style of the project—they made it more commercially oriented and created the OpenProject Foundation, which is funding it. These changes had a positive effect on the fork, which now looks quite cool and promising. However, it's obvious that the project is too young to replace Redmine. Also, it has not proven its durability yet (ChiliProject looked promising too).

Note

Check out OpenProject at https://www.openproject.org/.