Andriy Lesyuk - Mastering Redmine

Andriy Lesyuk is an open source evangelist, an enthusiastic, and passionate developer with more than 14 years of experience. He is skilled in Ruby, PHP, Perl, C, and more. His primary areas of interest are web development and Linux system development. He is also the author of more than 20 open source plugins for Redmine. He lives and works in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. His website is www.andriylesyuk.com.

Andriy started his career as an engineer in Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas, where he grew to be the Head of the Software and Networking Laboratory. For some time he worked as a freelancer developing custom Redmine plugins for companies world-wide, the most famous of which is oDesk. Recently, he joined the Kayako team which develops the world's leading helpdesk solution.

First, I would like to thank my wife, Lena Lesyuk, for support and patience. Special thanks to the Packt Publishing team, who assisted me in creating this book, especially to Sayama Waghu, Wilson D'souza, Pramila Balan, Abhishek Kori, Arun Nadar, Sharvari Baet, Devdutt Kulkarni, Kirti Pujari, Kaustubh S. Mayekar, and many others (Sorry, guys, I don't know all your names). And very much thanks to Redmine developers for their great work, especially to Jean-Philippe Lang, Eric Davis, and Toshi Maruyama.

Ludovic Gasc is a senior software integration engineer at Eyepea, a highly renowned Open Source VoIP and Unified Communications company in Europe.

Over five years, Ludovic Gasc has managed more than a hundred projects using Redmine in a number of different fields (telephony, webapp development, education) and for a wide variety of purposes (support, coaching, development and so on).

He is also the author of one Redmine plugin and has published several patches.

Lester Martin 's 20 year career showcases his accomplishments as a software development manager, architect, and programmer. His skills and experience are centered on Java, .NET, and e-commerce/web technologies. A self-described player/coach, he enjoys helping others grow in their software development careers while continuing to learn himself. He holds Sun Certified Java Programmer and Enterprise Architect credentials.

Mykhaylo Sorochan , PhD, has wide experience in Information Technologies ranging from software development to project management. He started from working on C++ console applications for Unix and now develops web applications in Ruby with Ruby on Rails framework. Besides professional interests in computer aided software engineering, domain specific languages, metaprogramming, and software transformation, his personal interests include such as science fiction, psychology, cycling, reading, and continuous acquiring of new knowledge. Currently holds a project manager position at the Sphere Consulting, Inc. www.sphereinc.com. In his free time, he supports Russian-speaking Redmine community www.redprojects.net.

Giovanni Toraldo started to mess around with Linux and free software during his early years at school, developing hobbyist websites with free CMS and maintaining the official Italian support site of PHP-Fusion. After a few unsatisfactory years at university, he decided to start working as a System Administrator and Web Developer. Nowadays, he has developed skills in Linux systems administration, and has taken part in development teams actively using Redmine for years. He is also the author of the OpenNebula book released in mid-2012.

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I dedicate this book to my lovely wife, Lena Lesyuk. Her support and patience made it possible.

Preface

This book describes the functionality and capabilities of Redmine, reveals its secrets and gives tips on how to use it. The book contains all the information needed to install, configure, use, and master this application. Redmine is a very powerful and an extremely flexible project management tool and an issue tracker. It's free, open source, built on the popular Ruby on Rails framework and has a strong community.