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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

Summary


In practice, users rarely configure the workflow and just use the default configuration that comes with Redmine. Some users add new roles, trackers, and issue statuses, but do not utilize the full power of the workflow. Instead, they just allow all trusted users to change all statuses to any other status. My guess is that this is due to the complexity of that part of the Redmine interface which is responsible for managing the workflow. Therefore, I hope that in this chapter I've succeeded in clarifying how to embrace this important feature. Nevertheless, I'm quite sure that project managers who have read this chapter will feel more comfortable with Redmine now and will be able to transform it into a very helpful assistant.

In the next chapter, we are going to review another interesting feature of Redmine. In fact, it can be considered one of the main features of this application. We'll discuss how you can track your work time using Redmine. In particular, you will learn how you can...