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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

Helping Redmine


There is one more way to customize Redmine—to modify Redmine itself, thus sharing your customization with other users. Any contribution is very important for free and open source projects, such as Redmine. An active and passionate community is what makes such projects good.

When most people hear about contribution to a free and open source project, they assume contribution in the form of some development, but in fact, there are many more areas where people can help. For example, this book helps Redmine by spreading information about it, teaching how to use it, and demonstrating its capabilities. Also, you have already helped Redmine by purchasing this book, not only because you can become a potential fan of this project, but also because Packt Publishing—the company that publishes this book—will pay a royalty to the Redmine team.

So let's discuss how else you can help Redmine:

  • As it has already been mentioned, let's start with development. If you are a developer, you can help...