Hassle Free Issue tracking with redmine

Redmine Hassle-free Issue Tracking Ciaran Jessup

Features (Out of the Box)
Multiple Projects
Flexible role based access control
Flexible Issue tracking
Gantt chart & Calendar
News, documents & files management
Atom & e-mail Notifications
Per project Wiki & Forums
Time tracking
Customisable fields across issues,projects & users
SCM Integration
Issue creation by e-mail
LDAP, OpenID and local authentication
Multiple language support
Runs on multiple databases

Installation Prerequisites
Rails 2.1.2 (0.8.x)
Rails 2.3.4 Application (Trunk cut)
Database
MySQL > 4.1
PostgreSQL 8
SQLite 3
RubyGems > 1.3.1
Rake > 0.8.3
RMagick (optional)
SCM Binaries (optional)
Ruby OpenID Library (optional)

Installation in 6 simple steps
Create a database
Either download, svn checkout or git clone redmine:
git clone git://github.com/edavis10/redmine.git redmine
Edit the database.yml file to point at your database
Generate a session key for the cookies
rake config/initializers/session_store.rb
Build the database
rake db:migrate
Populate with defaults (optional but wise)
rake redmine:load_default_data
Run-up and enjoy!
ruby script/server webrick -e production

Here's one I made earlier... :)

Projects
Can contain unlimited nesting of sub-projects
A project can have versions against which issues are targeted
A project usually has an associated wiki which is embedded in the project overview
All wikis, projects and issues can cross-link (Wiki Extensions plugin)

Customisable Workflow
Roles and permissions
Customisable roles, fine grained permissions
Users can have 1 or more roles on a project
Issues
Customisable Issue types (Trackers)
Customisable Issue statuses
Custom issue properties, configurable field display
Issue Workflows
Defines available transitions between issue statuses
Workflows are against role and tracker
Developer can have one workflow, QA Tester another

Issue Management
CRUD
Create or Create and Continue
Delete, Move, Update
All activities are available as Atom feed
Search
Simple additive criteria
Groupable results
Persistent
Dynamic context menu to action the results
Export to CSV, PDF & Atom

Roadmaps
Projects can have versions
Versions can be unique to a project.
Or shared across multiple projects currently in testing: git://github.com/edavis10/redmine_branches.git
Roadmaps provide a visual indication of progress towards a milestone
Can be broken down by most properties of an issue, such as author or component.

SCM Integration
Integrates with
Subversion, CVS, Mercurial, Darcs, Git and Bazaar
Provides
Repository Browsing
Repository Statistics
Comment integration
Code Review support (plugin)

Extended Features (Plugins)

'Agile' processes
Kanban Plugin
SCRUM Dashboard
Redmine Charts (Burndowns)

Writing a Plugin
Simple just like writing a Rails plugin
Various hook points provided to augment the existing
Controller
Model
View
Helpers
Able to override and re-configure the menus

Theme-able
Drop-in themes, easy to select and modify.
Currently just basic CSS replacement
Advanced styles are being worked on using more than CSS
http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/ThemeSP

Migrating to Redmine
Ships with support for;
Trac
Mantis
Scripts available from redmine.org for;
JIRA
Bugzilla
Scarab
Easy to extend existing scripts (Ruby)

Find out more
http://www.redmine.org/
http://redmineblog.com/

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