Mastering Redmine - Second Edition
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Mastering Redmine - Second Edition

  1. 366 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Mastering Redmine - Second Edition

About this book

An expert's guide to open source project management with RedmineAbout This Book• Learn Redmine through the basic topics to the mastering ones• Customize Redmine without breaking upgrade compatibility• Become an expert of Redmine after having read this comprehensive guide with tips, tricks and best practices.Who This Book Is ForThis book is best suited for project managers and Redmine administrators who have working knowledge of Redmine and who now want to get advanced practical knowledge to manage and monitor projects effectively and efficiently.What You Will Learn• Forget about troubles with installing and configuring Redmine• Feel at ease with using Redmine wiki syntax• Get familiar with the permissions system and issue life cycle in Redmine• Use Redmine for issue tracking, project hosting, project management, and time tracking• Find and choose plugins, and get familiar with some of the most useful Redmine pluginsIn DetailRedmine 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.Style and approachA comprehensive practical guide that will help the readers from custom configuration to integration of complex plugins and applications, and will leverage Redmine in appropriate situations for better and efficient results.

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Mastering Redmine Second Edition


Table of Contents

Mastering Redmine Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
eBooks, discount offers, and more
Why subscribe?
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
Discussions
1. Getting Familiar with Redmine
What is Redmine?
Why Redmine succeeds?
Walking through the Redmine interface
MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite or Microsoft SQL Server
Textile or Markdown?
Selecting a Source Control Management (SCM)
Selecting a web server and an application server
Redmine versions
Forks
Summary
2. Installing Redmine
Introduction to installation options
Installing Redmine from a package
Installing Redmine and MySQL server
Configuring the MySQL server package
Configuring the Redmine package
Installing Apache and Passenger
Connecting Redmine and Apache
Verifying and completing the installation
Upgrading the Redmine package
Installing Redmine from sources
Downloading and installing Redmine
Configuring the database
Installing Ruby and Bundler
Resolving Bundler errors
Installing dependencies
Installing the MySQL server, Apache, and Passenger
Setting up the database
Finalizing the Redmine installation
Configuring Apache
Verifying and completing the installation
Upgrading Redmine
Other installation options
Hosting Redmine
Redmine server hosting
Using the TurnKey Redmine appliance
Using the Bitnami Redmine Stack
Using Docker
Summary
3. Configuring Redmine
The first thing to fix
The general settings
The General tab
The Cache formatted text setting
Other settings tips
The Display tab
The Use Gravatar user icons setting
The Default Gravatar image setting
The Display attachment thumbnails setting
The API tab
The Files tab
Authentication
The Authentication tab
The Allow OpenID login and registration setting
LDAP authentication
Email integration
Email delivery
The configuration.yml file
The Email notifications tab
Reminder emails
Email retrieval
Handling incoming emails
Forwarding emails from mail server
Fetching emails from IMAP/POP3
Repository integration
The Repositories tab
Fetching commits
Using cron
Using an SCM hook
Automatic creation of repositories
Advanced repository integration
Troubleshooting
Summary
4. Issue Tracking
Creating an issue
Issue categories
Issues and project versions
The issue page
Subtasks
Related issues
The issue list
Custom queries
Updating an issue
Bulk update
Issue reports
Importing issues
Keeping track of changes
Configuring issue tracking
The Issue tracking module
The Issue tracking tab
Issues and repository integration
Summary
5. Managing Projects
Modules
The Issue tracking module
The Roadmap page
The Version page
The News module
The Documents module
The Files module
The Wiki module
The Repository module
The Forums module
The Calendar module
The Gantt module
The global configuration
Creating a project
The project pages
The Overview tab
The Activity tab
The project configuration
The Information tab
The Modules tab
The Members tab
The Versions tab
The Wiki tab
Closing a project
The project list
Project maintenance best practices
Custom queries
Administering projects
Copying projects
Archiving projects
Summary
6. Text Formatting
Formatting text in Redmine
The Wiki toolbar
Preview
Where to store linked images?
The Wiki syntax
The basics
Quotes
Lists
Images
Links
Normal links
Internal links
Wiki links
Project links
Version links
Issue links
Attachment links
News links
Document links
Forum links
Repository links
Code
Tables
Macros
The Table of contents macro
The Collapse macro
The Thumbnail macro
The Include macro
The Child pages macro
The Hello world macro
The Macro list macro
The advanced syntax
Alignment options
Padding options
Custom styles and language
The Textile span
Disabling an element
Advanced table syntax
Summary
7. Access Control and Workflow
The Roles and permissions page
Permissions
The Project block
The Forums block
The Calendar block
The Documents block
The Files block
The Gantt block
The Issue tracking block
The News block
The Repository block
The Time tracking block
The Wiki block
The Permissions report page
The Trackers page
The Issue statuses page
The Workflow page
The Status transitions tab
The Fields permissions tab
Copying the workflow
Checking the workflow summary
Modifying the workflow
Adding a role
Adding a tracker
Adding an issue status
A practical example
Summary
8. Time Tracking
Time tracking in Redmine
Activities
Tracking your time
Tra...

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