Wekan uses meteor.js which is really one of the worst frameworks out there. It breaks on so many ocasions and has really bad OS support. Event he current maintainer kind of dislikes the framework... The worst part about metor is that it forces you to use MongoDB!
Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban
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Re: Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban
#32I really like kanban boards for organizing my work but one feature I really miss in nearly all solutions is a way to schedule my day using existing tasks in a board. And preferably in a stand-alone way rather than adding it to my google calender. I'm currently using paymo [1], which does a great job at this. Example of what I mean: https://imgur.com/a/3Re9sXn But I'm open for switching to any alternatives. [1]: https…
this is not a feature I have ever missed, and I wonder why you would miss it? I move the task I am working on into in progress and when I am done with it I move it into review or done. If I scheduled my day based on tasks, then when task A was not moved from in progress and task B is scheduled to start what happens? It sounds to me like it would be more problematic - sorry to go on about it but I really am wondering…
I follow some practices from Cal Newport Deep Work [1].
In this case it is about scheduling your day (see also this blogpost [2]).
I really like the feature in paymo to schedule your working day with tasks that do exist in a kanban board. It ensures that you can quickly see what you're working on when picking things to do during the day and it also ensures that everything you do is in a kanban board.
I understand that most people probably don't miss this feature but I have a hard time going back to a system that does not have this.
[1]: https://www.calnewport.com/books/deep-work/
[2]: https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2015/09/29/deep-habits-three...
Re: Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban
#33We use this daily in our company. Projects are organized as boards. To solve visibility issues across multiple boards we develop a standalone program to consolidate cards from multiple boards to a user view. There has been issues like CPU usage, UI bugs and build issues but on the whole it is still quite useful.
Development and releases seems haphazard and there are no unit tests. Only eslint.
Re: Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban
#34We use this daily in our company. Projects are organized as boards. To solve visibility issues across multiple boards we develop a standalone program to consolidate cards from multiple boards to a user view. There has been issues like CPU usage, UI bugs and build issues but on the whole it is still quite useful. Development and releases seems haphazard and there are no unit tests. Only eslint.
Can you share the program to consolidate cards? We are also using Wekan in our company and would be very interested in that.
Re: Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban
#35Wekan uses meteor.js which is really one of the worst frameworks out there. It breaks on so many ocasions and has really bad OS support. Event he current maintainer kind of dislikes the framework... The worst part about metor is that it forces you to use MongoDB!
oh no!
Re: Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban
#36Wekan uses meteor.js which is really one of the worst frameworks out there. It breaks on so many ocasions and has really bad OS support. Event he current maintainer kind of dislikes the framework... The worst part about metor is that it forces you to use MongoDB!
While I tend to agree from a personal perspective, however the Wekan project especially seems to be able to pump out lots of very nice features at a high rate, thanks to meteor. Additionally to this, we at Cloudron update the app package about twice a week due to that and so far had very little breakage or regressions, compared to other apps. We do not update meteor often though, which is maybe contributing to the stability.
Re: Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban
#37It would be really nice to have something like this that can run locally but meant for a single user. I don't want to have to log in to my own instance or host a bunch of backend services (or even run it in a docker container).
Might be a fun weekend project to learn Rust, actually. :)
Re: Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban
#38I do most of my thinking and planning on Trello boards. It almost feels like a part of my brain. Ever since Trello was acquired by Atlassian, I've been planning to replace it - in the long term - waiting for signals that Atlassian is degrading my experience. It hasn't happened yet but I am assume that it's a matter of time. I've been wanting an open source Trello clone with a native desktop client for a while now. Go…
I have been using Kanboard for some time now, and can recommend it. There is - as far as I know it - not yet a native desktop client, but the web-interface works quite well: https://kanboard.org/ (not affiliated in any way - just a safisfied user)
It's a php app. All you have to do to run it locally is use the php server:
php -S localhost:8001
Open in your browser:
localhost:8001/index.php
You can also directly access the sqlite database if you want.
Re: Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban
#39It would be really nice to have something like this that can run locally but meant for a single user. I don't want to have to log in to my own instance or host a bunch of backend services (or even run it in a docker container). Might be a fun weekend project to learn Rust, actually. :)
Kanboard is very easy to run locally as I explained in my other comment
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22888108
I don't think replacing Trello is a weekend project, but if you want to learn Rust, you can use Kanboard to track your progress.
Re: Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban
#40If anyone is looking for another open source solution, there's https://github.com/greggigon/my-personal-kanban.
What's neat about the above one is it's a single offline html file that you open in your browser and everything is saved to local storage (but it has a JSON export / import feature for more robust backups).
Of course that means it's really only usable for 1 person, but if you're a solo developer, it's a breath of fresh air to just open a simple html file without needing to run a service to use it.
It's not the prettiest tool but it's very usable. I've been using it to manage a large personal side project. I made a video on that here: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/an-open-source-and-fully-offl...