Redmine

Never mind guys. I've figured this out - prior to adding members to a project I had to define roles myself. A bit strange behaviour, the software was so easy to install, has streamlined interface, but such a basic functionality has to be set up by the user. But that's not hard and therefore ok. The big problem with this that there is no mention of it in any of the guides I've seen on the Internet, including this site.

:) Never mind this one, too. I don't know where and how, but after two days of extensive googling, I've finally found instruction, which said how to initialize default data in the redmine.
So for all people who can't find it, like me, it's here:
[[http://www.redmine.org/wiki/1/HowTo_Install_Redmine_in_Ubuntu]]
It's for ubuntu, but that doesn't matter. I did it in Fedora 12, and all went smoothly.
Redmine Database Connection Configuration
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step 5.Insert default configuration data in database, by issuing:
I did like this:
su - redmine # login as redmine user (you may have different username)
cd /path/to/redmine_installation
rake redmine:load_default_data RAILS_ENV="production"
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If you're reading this post, I bet you've already installed redmine and setup some things, like users or projects and this instruction won't work for you, because rake will complain that some changes are already done to the database. The only workaround I know is to drop all tables in redmine database and repeat database initialization following instruction at the link given above.

With respect,
Czar.

RAILS_ENV=production rake redmine:load_default_data should load some defaults, especially default roles. If it didn't, please check if you can reproduce this and file a bug with clear steps to reproduce.

Ah, I had begun writing my reply before you posted your own solution :-) Also note that this step is described on RedmineInstall, so any other guide that omits it needs to be updated.