The goal of this chapter was to familiarize you with Redmine and get you ready to dig deeper into this web application. Therefore we have reviewed not only advantages and the interface of Redmine but also have checked its installation components. We have also discussed ChiliProject as it's a community fork of Redmine and it's important to know about it if you become (or have become) a member of the Redmine community.

I tried to share as much knowledge about Redmine, its fork and its installation components as possible so you could understand them better, learn what options you have and would be able to choose the right option. Still remember that usually the best option is the one which is used by most users so if you choose an uncommon option you should be sure about the reasons for doing this.

The knowledge you have gained reading this chapter will help you in the next chapter as you will need to decide what components you will use for installation. However, the next chapter covers only common options. Anyway if you chose other options it's still worth reading the next chapter to see how the installation is done.