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Mastering Redmine Second Edition

Mastering Redmine Second Edition

By : ANDRIY LESYUK
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Mastering Redmine Second Edition

Mastering Redmine Second Edition

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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 (14 chapters)
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A. Quick Syntax Reference
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Index

Chapter 2. Installing Redmine

Now that we know what Redmine is and what it looks like, we can proceed to the next step in our relations with it, that is, getting Redmine up and running. So generally, this chapter is about setting up and maintaining Redmine, and it is intended mostly for administrators.

In this chapter, we are going to focus on two main options for installing Redmine. The first one is what I recommend (and what I actually use)—installing Redmine from a package on Debian or Ubuntu. The second one is the official option—installation of the recent version from sources. Certainly, we will also speak about the advantages and disadvantages of these options.

Many users used to claim that the Redmine installation is not an easy process, which is not true if we consider the installation of a package. But actually, its installation can be even easier. How? We will discuss this at the end of this chapter.

So, in this chapter, we will cover the following topics...

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