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Wekan: An open-source Trello-like kanban

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Re: Wekan: An open-source Trello-like kanban

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Post by commandar »

mbreese wrote: post #17
thinbeige wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you want to selfhost Trello? Are you afraid that somebody at Trello might steal your secret cards, todos, specs, etc. and sells them? I know self hosting is actually better but it is also work and is the typical information which people put on Trello confidential enough to justify self hosting? IDK and again Trello is free.

There are legitimate reasons for wanting/needing to self-host. For example, in a regulatory environment, I could see managing PHI data (not for clinical treatment, but maybe tracking clinical research). In this case, Trello would either need to sign a BAA or you'd need to self host something. There are many reasons why self-hosting is the only viable option for some use-cases. And then there are also data longevity i…

> For example, in a regulatory environment, I could see managing PHI data

This is exactly why I have a spare box running Wekan in my office at work. We run clinical applications for a hospital; sometimes project tracking+testing involves PHI that we have to be super careful about letting into the outside world.

Re: Wekan: An open-source Trello-like kanban

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Post by The_Fox »

GordonS wrote: post #41
The_Fox wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The product I've been working on the last few months has all the things you listed, mostly: http://cwkanban.com/ . It's been a huge help to my own team's workflow. But it's not general-purpose like Wekan or Trello; it's focused on workflow for managed IT and at the moment only pulls ticket data from ConnectWise, software for managed services providers.

> all the things you listed, mostly Not trying to be a dick, but that sounds... kind of weasely.

I suppose- mostly I'm unsure to what extent "sub-boards for meta issues" makes sense when card data is drawn from an external source, as in our product.

Re: Wekan: An open-source Trello-like kanban

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Post by elviejo »

shortstuffsushi wrote: post #34
tadfisher wrote: post #11

If you want to do Kanban right, double down on making it possible to design actual Kanban workflows. Pretty ticket UI with checklists and GIFs must be secondary to this goal. Things that most actual Kanban flows have that no one has built into a decent product[0]: - Nested columns in lanes - Rows for class-of-service - WIP limits (per lane, per column, and per class-of-service) - Sub-boards for meta issues The actual…

What is "class-of-service?" I'm not familiar with this term.

In Kanban boards are represented a swim lines (rows). They represent a type of work (urgent, fixed date, standard)

Or a set of policies (solve in 4hours or less)

For the different tickets... It's the most powerful tool of the Kanban Method

Re: Wekan: An open-source Trello-like kanban

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Post by werber »

xet7 wrote: post #42
nsebban wrote: post #5

While I like the idea of having open source alternatives to the popular applications, this one is a pure and simple copy of Trello. This is a bit too much IMO.

Hi, I'm maintainer of Wekan. Trello related CSS was dropped in Wekan v0.9 2015-09-10, so after that Wekan does not use anything from Trello. UI and feature set is different. https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/FAQ#why-does-wekan-look-... https://github.com/wekan/wekan/blob/devel/CHANGELOG.md#v09-2... According to Open Hub, Wekan currently has about 9000 lines of code without counting Meteor.js framework and related p…

What made you decide on meteor?

Re: Wekan: An open-source Trello-like kanban

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Post by devrandomguy »

bostonvaulter2 wrote: post #44
jimstr wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

KanbanFlow, https://kanbanflow.com/ , is pretty serious about their Kanban implementation. Worth a look!

Not open source though (from a quick glance)

I agree that this is important. Optimizing and integrating the tools is a fairly significant part of my work, when I am leading a small team. Webhooks and a plugin framework are decent compromises, but there are so many times when I just want to dive into the code to increment a constant, or subclass and extend a method that doesn't have an externally accessible hook.

Re: Wekan: An open-source Trello-like kanban

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Post by werber »

thinbeige wrote: post #10
xj9 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

if it isn't free/libre software it doesn't really exist since i cannot self-host or modify the software to suit my needs. trello is a nice prototype tho.

Why do you want to selfhost Trello? Are you afraid that somebody at Trello might steal your secret cards, todos, specs, etc. and sells them? I know self hosting is actually better but it is also work and is the typical information which people put on Trello confidential enough to justify self hosting? IDK and again Trello is free.

I couldn't implement trello in a few situations because of corporate paranoia

Re: Wekan: An open-source Trello-like kanban

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Post by lucisferre »

gregoriol wrote: post #27
tadfisher wrote: post #11

If you want to do Kanban right, double down on making it possible to design actual Kanban workflows. Pretty ticket UI with checklists and GIFs must be secondary to this goal. Things that most actual Kanban flows have that no one has built into a decent product[0]: - Nested columns in lanes - Rows for class-of-service - WIP limits (per lane, per column, and per class-of-service) - Sub-boards for meta issues The actual…

Maybe YouTrack from JetBrains, these folks got some things right.

Except UX as a whole.

Re: Wekan: An open-source Trello-like kanban

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

werber wrote: post #54
xet7 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, I'm maintainer of Wekan. Trello related CSS was dropped in Wekan v0.9 2015-09-10, so after that Wekan does not use anything from Trello. UI and feature set is different. https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/FAQ#why-does-wekan-look-... https://github.com/wekan/wekan/blob/devel/CHANGELOG.md#v09-2... According to Open Hub, Wekan currently has about 9000 lines of code without counting Meteor.js framework and related p…

What made you decide on meteor?

xet7 is not the original creator of Wekan, so it would be hard for him to say. ;)
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