Redmine

Redmine is an open source, web-based project management and bug-tracking tool. It includes calendar and Gantt charts to aid visual representation of projects and their deadlines. It supports multiple projects. Redmine is free and open source software which provides integrated project management features, issue tracking, and support for multiple version control options. Projects investigating commercial tools like IBM Rational Team Concert, but wanting to stick with an open source solution, may find Redmine to be a useful Scrum and Agile alternative.

The design of Redmine is significantly influenced by Trac, a software package with some similar features.

Redmine is written using the Ruby on Rails framework. It is cross-platform and cross-database.

Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database.

Redmine is open source and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL).

Overview

Multiple projects support
Flexible role based access control
Flexible issue tracking system
Gantt chart and calendar
News, documents & files management
Feeds & email notifications
Per project wiki
Per project forums
Time tracking
Custom fields for issues, time-entries, projects and users
SCM integration (SVN, CVS, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and Darcs)
Issue creation via email
Multiple LDAP authentication support
User self-registration support
Multilanguage support
Multiple databases support

Online demo

An online demo can be found here: http://demo.redmine.org/.

This demo is running Redmine trunk (r3845) so you can evaluate the new features that have been added recently. It's been setup to give registered users the ability to create their own projects. This means once you register, you can create your own project on there and try out the project administration features.

Documentation

You can read the Redmine guide (work in progress).

Other resources:

Companies and projects saying "We are using Redmine!"

This page lists some companies and projects using Redmine.

Support & getting help

For getting help or discussing about Redmine, you can browse the Redmine forums hosted right here in Redmine. We also have a fairly active chatroom - join #redmine on the freenode IRC network. Some more information about IRC is here

Before submitting a bug report, a patch or a feature request here, please read the Submission guidelines.

Contributing and helping out

Redmine is built and maintained by community volunteers. If you enjoy using it and would like to give back to the community, the Contribute page has several ideas. Software development experience is not required. Check out the Teams Page if you are interested in a specific area to contribute regularly.

Thank:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redmine

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=674598

http://www.redmine.org/

http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/Download