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Mastering Redmine - Second Edition

By : ANDRIY LESYUK
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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.

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Mastering Redmine - Second Edition
ANDRIY LESYUK
May, 2016 | 366 pages
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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Redmine Second Edition
Mastering Redmine Second Edition
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Getting Familiar with Redmine
Getting Familiar with Redmine
What is Redmine?
Walking through the Redmine interface
MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite or Microsoft SQL Server
Textile or Markdown?
Selecting a Source Control Management (SCM)
Selecting a web server and an application server
Redmine versions
Forks
Summary
2
Installing Redmine
Installing Redmine
Introduction to installation options
Installing Redmine from a package
Installing Redmine and MySQL server
Verifying and completing the installation
Installing Redmine from sources
Other installation options
Summary
3
Configuring Redmine
Configuring Redmine
The first thing to fix
The general settings
Authentication
Email integration
Repository integration
Troubleshooting
Summary
4
Issue Tracking
Issue Tracking
Creating an issue
The issue page
The issue list
Updating an issue
Issue reports
Importing issues
Keeping track of changes
Configuring issue tracking
Summary
5
Managing Projects
Managing Projects
Modules
The global configuration
Creating a project
The project pages
The project configuration
Closing a project
The project list
Project maintenance best practices
Administering projects
Summary
6
Text Formatting
Text Formatting
Formatting text in Redmine
The Wiki syntax
Code
Tables
Macros
The advanced syntax
Alignment options
Summary
7
Access Control and Workflow
Access Control and Workflow
The Roles and permissions page
The Trackers page
The Issue statuses page
The Workflow page
Modifying the workflow
A practical example
Summary
8
Time Tracking
Time Tracking
Time tracking in Redmine
Activities
Tracking your time
Checking out the spent time
Time reports
Summary
9
Personalization
Personalization
Gravatar
The personal page
Getting updates
Personalizing the issue list
On-the-fly account creation
Summary
10
Plugins and Themes
Plugins and Themes
Finding plugins
Installing a plugin
A review of some plugins
Installing a theme
A review of some themes
Summary
11
Customizing Redmine
Customizing Redmine
Custom fields
Customizing with Textile
Customizing the theme
Customizing with a plugin
Helping Redmine
Summary
Quick Syntax Reference
Quick Syntax Reference
Index
Index

Installing Redmine and MySQL server

So let's execute the following command from the console:

$ sudo apt-get install redmine redmine-mysql mysql-server

Instead of redmine-mysql and mysql-server, you can use redmine-pgsql and postgresql or redmine-sqlite and sqlite3. But remember that neither PostgreSQL nor SQLite3 is reviewed in this section.

This command will install Redmine and MySQL as well as many dependency packages, including Ruby on Rails. Before doing this, the apt-get package manager will ask you to confirm, as follows:

Here, type y and then press Enter. This will make it download all the packages and start the installation process.

Configuring the MySQL server package

After unpacking the packages, apt-get will configure them. When it gets to the MySQL server, you will see the following dialog:

This dialog asks you to enter a new password for the MySQL superuser. In other words, this is the password that you will use to administer your MySQL server. The same password is to be used later...

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