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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

The project configuration


In this section, we are going to discuss topics intended solely for Redmine project managers, that is, users who have permissions that allow them to edit some project attributes (or other attributes that are somehow related to projects). It's easy to check whether you are among of them—if you see the Settings tab in the project menu, it means you can manage this project (or at least some of its attributes).

So, let's move on to this tab:

Here, you see the settings of the project. As you can see, these settings also use tabs. Let's discuss them.

In this section, we will skip the Issue category tab, as it has been discussed in the previous chapter. We will also skip the Repositories and Forums tabs as they have been reviewed along with the appropriate modules. Also, we won't review the Activities (time tracking) tab because it's going to be reviewed in Chapter 8, Time Tracking.

The Information tab

The first tab of the settings menu that gets opened by default and which...