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Mastering Redmine Second Edition

Mastering Redmine Second Edition

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|Sep 2025
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An expert s guide to open source project management with Redmine

Key Features

  • 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.

Book Description

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.

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 plugins

Who this book is for

This 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.

Table of Contents

  1. Getting Familiar with Redmine
  2. Installing Redmine
  3. Configuring Redmine
  4. Issue Tracking
  5. Managing Projects
  6. Text Formatting
  7. Access Control and Workflow
  8. Time Tracking
  9. Personalization
  10. Plugins and Themes
  11. Customizing Redmine
  12. Appendix-Quick syntax reference
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78588-346-0
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2016 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 366