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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

Other installation options


Redmine is getting more and more popular and is therefore becoming a tool on which companies want to build their businesses. So, this certainly helps to obtain more and more options for easy installation of Redmine. I guess no one can now say that it's hard to establish a Redmine server.

Hosting Redmine

The easiest way to establish a Redmine website is perhaps by using a dedicated Redmine hosting provider. The problem with this option, however, is that you are limited in the customization of your Redmine instance (for example, you won't be able to install custom plugins). Also, you will have to deal with the customizations of the hosting provider (which you may like though).

One of the oldest and best known Redmine hosting providers (on which even some of its core contributors now work) is https://plan.io/. Their customized Redmine comes with the agile board, contacts, the CRM and helpdesk functionality (plugins of http://www.redminecrm.com/), news renamed to blogs...