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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 7. Access Control and Workflow

You might expect to see the most major part of the administration menu being discussed in a single chapter, but that's not going to happen. In this book, I'm trying to review Redmine by its functional parts and not by sections of its web interface. Anyway, this chapter discusses the largest number of pages of this menu, as they are related to the access control and workflow.

On the other hand, you might wonder why the access control and workflow are reviewed in a single chapter. In Redmine, the workflow is a set of rules for the issue life cycle that consider trackers (issue types) and member roles. And it's actually member roles that define access permissions.

Also, this chapter is intended mostly for administrators as the administration menu is visible only to this type of user. However, it should also be interesting for project managers as it explains how to configure Redmine to ease and optimize the development process, in particular the issue life...