Presentation¶

I'm trying to get a presentation together for the FrOSCon:"http://www.froscon.de/" and would like to gather topic ideas and maybe even work out the outline here with other redminers. The presentation time being 1 hour of which 15 minutes should be allocated to questions, I only have 45 minutes to present redmine, which I would consider a rather short timespan. Keeping that in mind, I won't be able to present every feature of redmine in detail and will try to highlight the areas in which redmine really shines.

I had some email contact with the FrOSCon people, and they pointed to khmarbaise's talk last year and asked if I could either shift the focus a little bit or go a little more in-depth. Considering we use redmine more for group management than project management, I'll focus more on that aspect.

Resources¶

• The redmine features page, obviously,
• Other already existing presentations:
  • http://www.soebes.de/files/RedmineCLT2009.pdf
  • http://www.slideshare.net/elefevre/cours-du-soir-redmine-valtech (french)
  • http://www.slideshare.net/ritesh.tamrakar/software-project-management-using-redmine
  • http://www.slideshare.net/ciaranj/hassle-free-issue-tracking-with-readmin
  • http://www.slideshare.net/Anubavam/project-managementtoolsonrubyonrails
• I'll try to bring in my own experience, though I fear it is not that much a typical redmine usage.

Outline¶

What is Redmine? / What can it be used for? (5 minutes)¶

• Redmine
  • Web software
  • Ruby on Rails
  • GPLv2
• Usage
  • Software project, obviously
  • Group management, focus of the usage examples

Important features (15- minutes)¶

• Issue management
  • Highly customizable (Statuses, tracker/workflow)
  • Categories
  • Versions
  • Issue relations
• SCM integration
  • Repo browser/diff viewer/syntax highlighting/annotate
  • Automatic revision to issue linking
• "Community" features
  • Wiki
  • Forums
  • News/Blog
• "Software Management" Features
  • Time tracking
  • Files
  • Documents
• Administration
  • RBAC
  • User management/LDAP
  • Per-project settings
  • Custom fields
• OSS
  • Highly extensible (Plugins! show 2 examples, a simple one, a kick-ass one (looking at you Eric ;-) ))

Few usage examples (15+ minutes)¶

• (Fachschaftsarbeit) Student union coordination
  • Planning and preliminary discussion of weekly meetings
  • Minutes
  • Other task tracking
• (KIF) German-speaking sutdent unions conference
  • Same thing, bigger scope, heavier "community" usage
  • Subprojects (inheritance, issue list containing child projects, …)
  • KIF publication (next example)
• Publication
  • Custom tracker + Workflow
  • SCM not limited to software

How do I get it? / What do I need for it? (5 minutes)¶

• Get it
  • Download a packaged release
  • Download from git/svn
  • Download an stack installer
  • Download a virtual machine
  • Get a hosted offering
• Needs (for ground-up installation)
  • Halfway recent ruby/rails stack (so not debian *coughs*)
  • Database (whatever floats your boat and works with rails, only mysql/pgsql/sqlite tested though)
  • Some frontend webserver is better (either reverse proxy, cgi or mod_passenger)
  • Some SCM software for SCM integration

Who am I? / Additional resources (5 minutes)¶

• http://redmine.org
  • Guides
  • Forums
  • IRC
• (Nearly) shameless plug at our redmine installation geared towards german higher education

Q&A (15 minutes)¶