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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

Project maintenance best practices


As of now, we have reviewed the functionality that is available for projects in Redmine. However, in my opinion, it's not enough to learn what functionality is available. It's much more important to learn how to use it properly. So now, I would like to share some of my experience of what should be done and what should be avoided. In other words, in this section, I would like to list some best practices for better project maintenance. So let's go:

  • Always specify the target version when you close an issue, as it is used for the roadmap.

  • Have a future version added to the version list. If you are unsure what version name or number this will be then name it, for example, Next version. You can always change the name later. If no future version is available, a developer won't be able to select a value for the Target version field.

    Note

    Redmine developers use the following version names for future versions: Candidate for next major release and Candidate for next minor...