Upgrading Redmine From 0.9.6 to 1.0.0

Much of this post is repeated in the Upgrading Redmine from 0.8 to 0.9.3 post we did a few months back.  Now with Redmine 1.0 RC out, the upgrade process is once again not as simple as doing a subversion update.  If you are downloading tarzips and installing "manually", we recommend saving some time and learning basic subversion commands.  Subversion checkout and update is much faster and easier once you have the initial installation in place. These are Cyber Sprocket's notes from our upgrade. For more information you may want to visit the official documentation site. Our Environment The environment we were running before upgrading to Redmine 1.0(RC): Redmine 0.9.6 Apache 2.2.7 MySQL 4.1.22* * Note - we have had discussions with the Redmine development team regarding the MySQL version.  We are running MOST features with no problem on MySQL 4.1, ...

Redmine Wiki Formatting with Textile

We use Redmine rather extensively for managing both our consulting projects and our commercial product releases. While the default commands listed in the Redmine help pages are useful, here are some additional formatting tricks to help you get the most out of your Redmine posts. This also works quite well in forum posts and issue reports. Formatting a Paragraph These simple tricks work quite well for headers as well, simply replace the p with h1, h2, or h3.  Remember to put a space after the period that ends the formatting directive. Align the paragraph to the left (default): p<. The paragraph text. Align the paragraph to the right: p>. The paragraph text. Center alignment: p=. The paragraph text. Left side indent by 1em (character): p(. Paragraph text here Left side indent ...

Upgrading Redmine From 8.6 to 9.3

After more than a year of using Redmine to help us manage our projects it was time to upgrade.  Redmine helps us manage our bug lists, wish lists, and to do lists.  It helps us communicate with our clients effectively and efficiently using a web based media in a consistent format that is easy to use for both our developers and our clients.  However, during the past year there have been several changes including the significant upgrades that came out in v9.x some months back.   Our busy schedule kept us from upgrading as each new release came out, and sadly we had fallen far behind.   This past weekend we decided it was time to upgrade.   The notes below record some of the problems we ran into and outlines how we resolved them.  If ...