Redmine is an open source project management and issue tracking tool. It provides flexible issue tracking, wiki pages and documents, a Gantt chart and calendar, and notifications. Redmine can be customized with multiple plugins and themes and supports integration with source code management systems and migration from other tools. Installation involves creating a database, installing required gems, and generating a session key.

1. Redmine Hassle-free Issue Tracking Ciaran Jessup

2. Features (Out of the Box) Multiple Projects

3. Flexible role based access control

4. Flexible Issue tracking

5. Gantt chart & Calendar

6. News, documents & files management

7. Atom & e-mail Notifications

8. Per project Wiki & Forums Time tracking

9. Customisable fields across issues,projects & users

10. SCM Integration

11. Issue creation by e-mail

12. LDAP, OpenID and local authentication

13. Multiple language support

14. Runs on multiple databases

15. Installation Prerequisites Rails 2.1.2 (0.8.x)

16. Rails 2.3.4 Application (Trunk cut)

17. Database MySQL > 4.1

18. PostgreSQL 8

19. SQLite 3 RubyGems > 1.3.1

20. Rake > 0.8.3

21. RMagick (optional)

22. SCM Binaries (optional)

23. Ruby OpenID Library (optional)

24. Installation in 6 simple steps Create a database

25. 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

26. 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

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28. Projects Can contain unlimited nesting of sub-projects

29. A project can have versions against which issues are targeted

30. A project usually has an associated wiki which is embedded in the project overview

31. All wikis, projects and issues can cross-link (Wiki Extensions plugin)

32. Customisable Workflow Roles and permissions Customisable roles, fine grained permissions

33. Users can have 1 or more roles on a project Issues Customisable Issue types (Trackers)

34. Customisable Issue statuses Custom issue properties, configurable field display Issue Workflows Defines available transitions between issue statuses

35. Workflows are against role and tracker Developer can have one workflow, QA Tester another

36. Issue Management CRUD Create or Create and Continue

37. Delete, Move, Update

38. All activities are available as Atom feed Search Simple additive criteria

39. Groupable results

40. Persistent

41. Dynamic context menu to action the results

42. Export to CSV, PDF & Atom

43. Roadmaps Projects can have versions Versions can be unique to a project.

44. 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

45. Can be broken down by most properties of an issue, such as author or component.

46. SCM Integration Integrates with Subversion, CVS, Mercurial, Darcs, Git and Bazaar Provides Repository Browsing Repository Statistics Comment integration

47. Code Review support (plugin)

48. Extended Features (Plugins)

49. 'Agile' processes Kanban Plugin

50. SCRUM Dashboard

51. Redmine Charts (Burndowns)

52. Writing a Plugin Simple just like writing a Rails plugin

53. Various hook points provided to augment the existing Controller

54. Model

55. View

56. Helpers Able to override and re-configure the menus

57. Theme-able Drop-in themes, easy to select and modify.

58. Currently just basic CSS replacement

59. Advanced styles are being worked on using more than CSS http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/ThemeSP

60. Migrating to Redmine Ships with support for; Trac

61. Mantis Scripts available from redmine.org for; JIRA

62. Bugzilla

63. Scarab Easy to extend existing scripts (Ruby)

64. Find out more http://www.redmine.org/

65. http://redmineblog.com/