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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


This chapter is one of the last chapters, as you are expected to already know Redmine. Thus, to customize the issue list, you need to know how to use custom queries. To configure and troubleshoot email notifications, you need to know which settings should be specified in the administration pages. To customize personal pages, you need to be familiar with the information that is shown in the blocks. And so on.

Perhaps this could be a good chapter to end the book with, but Redmine is not just a tool with a fixed list of features. It has a great special feature that makes its feature list nearly unlimited. This feature is the plugin API. There are a lot of plugins for Redmine with very different functionalities—from just adding a feature to turning Redmine into a different application. So, in the next chapter, we will review what plugins are, how to find the plugins that you need, and other related topics. Additionally, we will review some interesting plugins there.