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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 5. Managing Projects

Unfortunately, or fortunately, this chapter is not about the project management bit which is part of software engineering, but about managing projects in Redmine. Despite this, it is actually targeted at project managers (as well as project owners and the like). Thus, it describes what tools are available for projects and how they can be used. Even so, this chapter should not be ignored by regular users as it teaches them how to find the needed information, where to put requests, how to keep a track of changes in a project, and much more.

If the previous chapter described Redmine as an issue tracker, this one reviews it as a project management and project hosting solution. This is a kind of secondary role served by Redmine.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • 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