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Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban

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Re: Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban

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Post by alpaca128 »

rhabarba wrote: post #5

Assumption: Most teams which use a kanban system would work just as efficiently with a couple of org-mode files.

Org-mode and other text files have the problem that they can only present content in a linear way. Which is fine in a lot of cases and for text documents, but can't hold a candle to a simple Kanban board where you have everything at a glance and nicely structured without scrolling back and forth all the time.

I use org-mode files every day and it's a limitation I feel more and more.

Re: Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban

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Post by lukevp »

Debonnys wrote: post #16

I 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…

Microsoft planner is pretty great if you have access to it. You can create cards on a Kanban board but also schedule them and see a calendar and a Gantt chart view of your projects.

Re: Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban

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Post by phillc73 »

recusive_story wrote: post #7
vincvinc wrote: post #3

I 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…

Github has a basic kanban board and since private repositories are free, it can be used as replacement to Trello.

Gitlab also has kanban boards, which I really like. Sometimes I wish I could just use the kanban boards to manage tasks, without having all the associated software development tools in the UI.

Or maybe, a better idea would be the ability to log in straight to the boards, without having to navigate via projects etc.

Re: Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban

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Post by alpaca128 »

huhtenberg wrote: post #44
nickjj wrote: post #40

If 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 br…

In the same vein - https://nullboard.io/preview or https://github.com/apankrat/nullboard

Oh, that's exactly what I was looking for. Most kanban software is centered around multiple users and all the cumbersome setup that comes with that assumption.

Re: Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban

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Post by heyflyguy »

nickjj wrote: post #40

If 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 br…

I really like this, and after reading about the guy who lost his personal trello to his former employer...I am motivated to try this.

Re: Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban

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Post by lioeters »

aogaili wrote: post #48
carlos22 wrote: post #31

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!

So what is your go-to nodejs framework? and which NoSQL database do you use?

Not the parent commenter, but.. Having only a superficial knowledge of Meteor, I prefer a more modular approach:

- React/Preact with context or hooks instead of Redux

- Micro for server - https://github.com/zeit/micro

- Postgres with Knex for data persistence - https://knexjs.org/

Add authentication, WebSockets, etc., and it starts to look like an ad-hoc framework - except that all layers are generic and replaceable (theoretically) with equivalent features, like using Express or MariaDB.

I'm also quite fond of Next.js, which lets me have all the above. https://nextjs.org/

Re: Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban

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Post by mattbk1 »

Angostura wrote: post #43
vincvinc wrote: post #3

I 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…

If you're a Teams user, there's Microsoft Planner.

Thanks for this reminder. I wish I could view things in Gantt (rather than just calendar) format.

Re: Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban

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Post by enitihas »

carlos22 wrote: post #42
nebulon wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 st…

Yes that helps but brings in other problems. For example many many security problems in the thousands of used npm packages of meteor and its dependencies.

Unfortunately thousands of dependencies is not unique to meteor, it is the hallmark of any popular npm package. So even react and vue would have too many dependencies.
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