Chapter 1, Getting Familiar with Redmine, prepares us for the next chapters by briefly going through the Redmine interface concept and reviewing pluggable components of the application.

Chapter 2, Installing Redmine, guides on how to install Redmine in four different ways, each of which is suitable for different purposes.

Chapter 3, Configuring Redmine, reviews the configuration options, which are available in the Settings section of the Administration area and covers the advanced options obscured behind them.

Chapter 4, Issue Tracking, reviews what makes Redmine one of the best issue trackers, also giving heed to the configuration options related to issue tracking.

Chapter 5, Managing Projects, covers the major part of Redmine functionality, which is related to projects, and shows, why this is one of the best applications for project hosting.

Chapter 6, Time Tracking, describes time tracking capabilities of Redmine and guides how to generate time reports.

Chapter 7, Text Formatting, is a comprehensive tutorial for the Redmine rich text formatting syntax, which is based on Textile and gives formatting powers to Redmine's Wiki.

Chapter 8, Access Control and Workflow, is aimed at enlightening the permissions system and the issue life cycle by explaining what is the role, the tracker, the issue status, and how are they connected.

Chapter 9, Personalization, gives hints on how to make Redmine more comfortable for users, and helps users to ensure that important and interesting information will be delivered to them.

Chapter 10, Plugins and Themes, guides on how to find plugins for a particular Redmine version, covers installation of plugins and themes and reviews some interesting plugins.

Chapter 11, Customizing Redmine, shows the power of custom fields and guides how to customize Redmine without breaking upgrade compatibility.