Feature #17907
Give 'version' another meaning
| Status: | New | Start date: | ||
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: | - | % Done: | 0% | |
| Category: | Roadmap | |||
| Target version: | - | |||
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Description
Redmine is good for project management. But not only for real software development! So versions doesn't make much sense in none software development projects.
My suggestion: Let the user choose if a version is a version or a milestone, a target, a phase, stage or whatever.
Realization would be quite simple. You just have to add another field that specifies the type of the 'version'. If the user creates a version he or she has to select in a dropdown the type. Ideally you could add some icons to visualize the versions types e.g. in the roadmap.
In a further development this the version types could be made configurable. But this is not so important in my case. I just notice that peoople don't like to use versions. It would be quite clearer if this just could have another name.
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History
#1
Updated by Robert Schneider almost 7 years ago
Any comments? IMO this is smaller change (but I could be wrong, of course) that is quite effective. Or not?
#2
Updated by Ebrahim Mohammadi almost 7 years ago
I think "Version" is too specific and for some categories of Redmine users not suitable. Using a more generic term such as "Milestone" would be a better default. And letting user customize the terminology would be nice, although not necessary IMO.
#3
Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA almost 7 years ago
- Category set to Roadmap
#4
Updated by Mischa The Evil over 6 years ago
- Related to Feature #724: change "versions" to "milestones" added
#5
Updated by Dipan Mehta about 5 years ago
#6
Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA about 5 years ago
- Related to Feature #13387: Improving Redmine's version model (not just milestones) added
#7
Updated by shakib a about 5 years ago
Hi,
I agree with this new feature, while i believe that milestone is a for measuring distance passed not the distance to be passed for the first time, but i think changing the people's way of thinking is to hard!
#8
Updated by Toshi MARUYAMA almost 4 years ago
- Related to Feature #21577: The version should get a status archived like projects added
#9
Updated by Bernhard Rohloff about 3 years ago
I also agree with this proposal. From my experience it's hard to sell the Roadmap feature to people which are not involved in any type of software development or dev-topics at all. I usually come around that issue by renaming the 'version' to a more casual umbrella term like ' collection ' so everybody can specify their type in the name like for example Version - V1.2 or Sprint - 1 or Milestone - Requirements something like that.
This solution has no impact on the core system of Redmine and gains the versatility and acceptance for the Roadmap module especially by non tech-savvy users a lot.
+1
#10 Updated by Anonymous almost 3 years ago
+1
#11
Updated by Yuuki NARA almost 3 years ago
+1
The function of Redmine is flexible, and it can be used in various ways in a wide range.
However, because the names of each term are fixed, it is not suitable for individual use, and it may be difficult to use Redmine.
I have created a issue to overwrite the term file.
With this function, you can set appropriate terms according to the usage of Redmine.
Make the terms overwrite from the Redmine administration screen.
https://www.redmine.org/issues/29164
#12
Updated by Go MAEDA almost 3 years ago
- Related to Feature #29164: Make the terms overwrite from the Redmine administration screen. added
#13
Updated by Robert Schneider over 2 years ago
Man... I would be glad if it could be implemented. Would be so useful! Couldn't it be considered?
#14
Updated by Yuuki NARA almost 2 years ago
redmine_message_customize plugin has been created.
You can use this to override the term from the administration screen.
https://github.com/ishikawa999/redmine_message_customize
http://www.redmine.org/issues/29164#note-5