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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

Getting updates


Unless you are checking out Redmine on a regular basis—that is, once a day or even more frequently—it's easy to miss some important information, such as a new issue that was assigned to you, new data on an issue, changes in Wiki documentation, a new reply in a forum topic, and so on. Unfortunately, not all of such data can be found on a single page (say My page), and such pages can contain too much information to examine (for example, the Activity tab of the project). Therefore, in this section, we will discuss how to make sure that you will be notified about changes that are made to the objects you are interested in.

The email notifications

Personally, I find it convenient to be notified via email, as you get these kinds of notifications when you are ready for them (that is, you check for new messages and expect them to come). Users usually check their mailboxes once a day or even more often. There are many different tools that can help users get their emails in time. In email...