Presentation¶
I'm trying to get a presentation together for the FrOSCon 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
- http://vimeo.com/groups/13013/videos/6601634
- 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)¶
Updated by Marian Banica almost 10 years ago · 9 revisions