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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

On-the-fly account creation


Under this section, we will review not user registration but automatic account creation that does not require filling in any form. So, this section is not intended solely for ordinary users but also for site owners and administrators. Ordinary users will learn how they can use their third-party accounts in Redmine, and site owners and administrators will learn how to make this possible.

Just in case you did not know, most users avoid registering on each new site. There are many reasons for this, among them the following:

  • They don't trust the new site and therefore do not want to share their email addresses, passwords, and so on

  • They do not want to remember another username and password combination and do not want to reuse the ones that they are already using in other systems

  • They see no reasons weighty enough for creating an account on the new site

Tip

The reason that is mentioned last hints at the solution—make sure that your potential users do know the benefits of...