Redmine
Developer(s) | Jean-Philippe Lang |
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Initial release | June 25, 2006 |
Stable release | 5.1.3 (June 12, 2024[1])[±] |
Repository | |
Written in | Ruby |
Operating system | Unix,Linux,macOS,Windows |
Platform | Ruby on Rails |
Available in | 49 languages[2] |
List of languages Albanian, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, English (British), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Serbian Cyrillic, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Spanish (Panama), Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese | |
Type | Project management software,Bug tracking system |
License | GNU General Public License, version 2.0 |
Website | www |
Redmineis afree and open source,web-based project management andissue tracking tool.It allows users to manage multiple projects and associated subprojects. It features per projectwikisand forums, time tracking, and flexible, role-based access control. It includes a calendar andGantt chartsto aid visual representation of projects and their deadlines. Redmine integrates with variousversion controlsystems and includes arepositorybrowser anddiffviewer.
The design of Redmine is significantly influenced byTrac,a software package with some similar features.[3]
Redmine is written using theRuby on Railsframework.[4]It is cross-platform and cross-database and supports 49 languages.[2]
Features
[edit]Redmine's features include the following:[5]
- Allows tracking of multiple projects
- Supports flexiblerole-based access control
- Includes anissue tracking system
- Features aGantt chartand calendar
- Integrates News, documents and files management
- AllowsWeb feedsand e-mail notifications.
- Supports a per-projectwikiand per-project forums
- Allows simple time tracking
- Includes custom fields for issues, time-entries, projects and users
- Supports a range ofSCMintegration, including (SVN,CVS,Git,Mercurial,BazaarandDarcs)
- Supports multipleLDAPauthentication
- Allows user self-registration
- Supports 49 languages
- Allows multiple databases
- Allows for plugins
- Provides aRESTAPI
Adoption
[edit]As of 2008[update],there were more than 80 major Redmine installations worldwide.[6]Among the users of Redmine isRuby.[7]In 2015, Redmine was the most popular open source project planning tool.[8]
Forks
[edit]Following concerns with the way the feedback and patches from the Redmine community were being handled[9]a group of Redmine developers created aforkof the project in February 2011.[10]The fork was initially named Bluemine, but changed to ChiliProject.[11]After the leader of the fork moved on from ChiliProject in 2012[12]and development and maintenance had been announced to shut down,[13]the project was officially discontinued in February 2015.[14]
Another fork of ChiliProject calledOpenProjectis active since 2015.[15]
Additionally,Easy Redmine(also known as Easy Project), developed by Easy Software, functions as an extension to Redmine. Established in 2006, Easy Redmine offers enhanced features and a mobile application, and is available in over 80 countries. It covers various project management methodologies and integrates advanced functionalities like risk and resource management, Gantt charts, and CRM modules. Easy Redmine is being used by the Kazakh state administration, Bosch, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic among others.[16][17][18]
See also
[edit]- Comparison of issue-tracking systems
- Comparison of project management software
- Comparison of time-tracking software
- Software configuration management
References
[edit]- ^"Download - Redmine".redmine.org.Retrieved2024-06-28.
- ^ab"Features".redmine.org.Retrieved2021-04-28.
- ^"Edgewall Software Trac".trac.edgewall.org. 2015-03-01.Retrieved2015-03-31.
- ^"10 Awesome Free Applications for Office Work".OXHow. 2014-08-03.Retrieved2015-03-31.
- ^"Overview - Redmine".crackpaws.ezyro /.Retrieved2017-07-22.
- ^"Redmine - They Are Using Redmine".Redmine. 2008-11-12. Archived fromthe originalon 2010-05-07.Retrieved2008-11-12.
- ^"Ruby Issue Tracking System".Retrieved2015-03-01.
- ^"Project Planning Tools - Popularity Ranking".Project Management Zone. 2015-08-01.Retrieved2015-08-01.
- ^"ChiliProject – Why fork".Retrieved2012-07-04.
- ^"Introducing ChiliProject – A community fork of Redmine".2 February 2011. Archived fromthe originalon 2011-04-17.Retrieved2011-04-16.
- ^"Chiliproject FAQ".Retrieved2015-03-31.
- ^"ChiliProject".2 February 2011.Retrieved2014-05-21.
- ^"ChiliProject Blog".Archived fromthe originalon 2014-06-30.Retrieved2014-05-21.
- ^"Announcing the end of ChiliProject".2015-02-02. Archived fromthe originalon 2015-02-04.Retrieved2015-02-28.
- ^"Open Project Development Timeline".openproject.org.Retrieved2015-03-31.
- ^"Důvěra jako cenná komodita. Výzkum české firmy Easy Software vyvíjející projektové nástroje odhalil trendy managementu na dálku v roce 2021".roklen24.cz(in Czech).Retrieved2023-12-26.
- ^iX-Redaktion (2017-06-09).iX Special 2017 – IT-Projektmanagement: Agil bessere Software entwickeln(in German). Heise Medien GmbH & Co. KG.ISBN978-3-95788-087-1.
- ^"Easy Redmine Reveals its New Feature Developed Based on the Feedback of Over 200 Scrum Teams".markets.businessinsider.Retrieved2023-12-26.
Sources
[edit]- Lesyuk, Andriy (2013).Mastering Redmine.Packt Publishing.ISBN978-1-849519-14-4.
- Bevilacqua, Alex (2014).Redmine Plugin Extension and Development.Packt Publishing.ISBN978-1-783288-74-8.