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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

Modifying the workflow


Configuring the workflow is one of the most complicated tasks in Redmine. Also, proper configuration of issue status transitions is more significant and important than configuration of fields permissions. So before doing this, I would recommend that you draw a diagram of issue status transitions that you plan to implement, and discuss it with your team in detail. In this way, you will minimize the risk of the need to modify the workflow later. However, I believe that you can't fully avoid further modifications, as the workflow should be an adaptive system and can still change.

Modifying the workflow is not so complicated as risky. A wrong configuration can allow more than users need, or limit them when they need more. You have already seen all the configuration forms and the amount of elements in them, so you would probably agree that it's easy to miss something when you add a new role, tracker, or issue status. Therefore, under this section, we will talk about basic...