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== redMine



redMine - project management software

Copyright (C) 2006-2007  Jean-Philippe Lang

http://redmine.rubyforge.org/



== License



This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License

as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2

of the License, or (at your option) any later version.



This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

GNU General Public License for more details.



You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.





== Main features



redMine is a project management software written using Ruby on Rails.



* Multiple users/multiple projects

* Fully customizable role based access control

* Issue tracking system

* Fully customizable workflow

* Documents/files repository

* News management

* SVN browser and diff viewer

* Email notifications

* Custom fields for projects, users and issues

* Multiple LDAP authentication support

* User self-registration support

* Multilanguage support (english, french, german, spanish)

* Multiple databases support: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, SQLite





== User documentation



User documentation for redMine is written using DocBook XML format.

It's also avaible as HTML files in /public/manual (contextual help)





== Versioning



redMine versioning scheme is major.minor.revision

Versions before 1.0.0 must be considered as beta versions and upgrading support

may not be provided for these versions.





== Credits



* Jean-Francois Boutier (spanish translation)

* Andreas Viklund (open source XHTML layout, http://andreasviklund.com/)

* Karim Trott (german translation and english online help translation)