Redmine the Open Source Project Management tool installation is easy now. A Bitnami stack is available for Redmine now. You can download the stack from Bitnami site and install with in 10 minutes. It is great. I took around two days to install and configure it before. Todat I did it with 10 minutes .
Happy hacking !!!!!!!!!
Today I installed Redmine project management tool in my Ubuntu9.0.4 PC. I got a good guide on how to Install Redmine in Ubuntu9.5. It is a good one. Everything step is clearly mentioned in the page. I took one and half day to configure it(Because of the blunders commited by me ). Thank to the author!!.Also I consulted my friend Ullas who experimented with Redmine before some months.
If somebody is interested in configuring Redmine in Ubuntu9.0.4(Jaunty) please refer the blow given link.
One thing all the 'aptitude' command given in the guide should be replaced by 'apt-get'. Other wise you may face some problems.
The guide can be accessed from the link http://wiki.ousli.org/index.php/RedmineUbuntu
Open Workbench open source project scheduling tool.
Open workbench is a project scheduler and project management tool. Again a Ruby based desktop application. Most of the project leaders and managers in the corporate world will be using M$ Project for scheduling and managing there project. Dear leaders and managers have a change!!. Here is an alternative for you "Open Workbench". Everything which you are doing in M$ tool will be available here, some times more. The project is supported by CA. If your company would like to reduce licensing cost of M$ Project recommend it and save $$ers. I tried it. Great!!. Before getting the tool I was doing all the thing with M$ tool. (Sorry I compelled to use it. So i searched for an open tool). There was no difficulty in using it. Easy to install and use. No dependency no license ultimate freedom. I used the tool for creating schedules of two projects which i coordinated in my previous organisation.
If you are an open source guy you will ask What about planer? Yes palnner is there. But Open Workbench is more and more advanced one. Have feel of it.
Redmine the Open Source way for project management
Recently I came across a new Free and Open Source project management tool called Redmine. Very nice tool. It is web based frame work developed in Rubu on Rails architecture. It is use ful for Open Source Communities to Corporate world. The entire software production life cycle can be made tracable and automated. It is highely customisable. The installation instruction says that it will tale 15 minuted to install, if you are familier with Ruby language. But it may take more time. I treid to install it in a Fedora8 machine and integrate with apache for intranet access. Both people were novice in Ruby so we took three days to configure it. The main advantage of this tool is its customisability. Depending upon the need of community or organization you can customize it or add more features. A handful of plug-is are also available for the tool. The most interesting one is the library plug in. It can be used to anage the libraray in an organisation. I am sure it will become most favorite tool for the corporate world and open community.
