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Re: Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

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For personal use I can recommend this Obsidian plugin. It turns a markdown file into a Kanban board. https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-kanban

Assuming "kanban" is the Japanese 看板[1] ("kanban", billboard), the Department of Redundancy Department would like a word with you and Kanboard regarding "kanban board". [1]: https://jisho.org/search/%E7%9C%8B%E6%9D%BF

Kindly also report the usage of "Chai Tea" ('Chai' means 'Tea' in Pakistan/India, which is where that flavor originated from)

Re: Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

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I use this too! I wish there was a better way to self-host keeping a vault up to date on the Android client, though.

I've been using syncthing to do this without any issue.

I've found myself running into sync-conflicts while editing my Obsidian Vault in a syncthing folder in the past. Did syncthing work flawlessly OOB in your experience?

Re: Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

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I hadn’t heard of Kanboard, but it’s always a good sign when a FOSS project shared on here already has an associated Nix package!

https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=22.11&from=0&size=...

I look forward to trying it out.

As the project is in maintenance mode (also a good sign - it has completed its objectives and doesn’t look to go crazy with new features etc) I wonder how receptive the project is to stylistic changes. Subtly rounded corners, a bit of a gradient, and a bit of padding and the cards as shown on the screenshots would look a million times better (to my very subjective eyes).

Re: Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

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People like pretty things. The tool (and the landing page) could really use some work to attract more people to this tool.

I like pretty things, but for Kanban the tool’s appearance is perfect IMO. If anything, I’d want it to be duller: I want to spend as little time looking at my task management as possible, and making it prettier only serves that purpose if it’s more usable as a result. But this is already perfectly usable.

I think the landing page could use a little typography and spacing polish, but again it’s perfectly usable. It’s worlds better on my phone than ~99% of what I encounter where the lede includes “free and open source” or the target audience ≈ most of HN.

The only thing I really could criticize (with the tool, as presented) is that it’s susceptible to the same problems every software kanban implementation eventually succumbs to: every Trello eventually becomes a Jira. IMO it’s already too featureful (and I know some other commenters disagree here), not too much to rule it out for me but the real risk is there’s a very clear path for feature creep that would degrade its appeal (to me).

Re: Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

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I hadn’t heard of Kanboard, but it’s always a good sign when a FOSS project shared on here already has an associated Nix package! https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=22.11&from=0&size=... I look forward to trying it out. As the project is in maintenance mode (also a good sign - it has completed its objectives and doesn’t look to go crazy with new features etc) I wonder how receptive the project is to stylistic…

Yes indeed, and I just tried installing it and got:

error: hash mismatch in fixed-output derivation '/nix/store/7sagfaqcqv5flgvrzs5b30ndfchwvpa4-source.drv': specified: sha256-s//GkCKvppqJ+7x8pNwVEaBsUOCKCGt+wLj9P+3N9hc= got: sha256-LLTbJPxqOQB1v79nzr6GxF+/OE2704UpXmqEfKjQGDo= error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/9i74fl13f7s61lgx794jpp4iq179i45v-kanboard-1.2.24.drv' failed to build error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/vnv9wyc3dzhc4wx3p346cl96646yj6y8-user-environment.drv' failed to build error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/5ini5ll4fdcpaq23m97xlmnvzz2idjx9-etc.drv' failed to build error: 1 dependencies of derivation '/nix/store/map4y39y8rc24945a8vxvgd573zpdsir-nixos-system-ibanowexultro-22.11.4303.b0671cbf1e5.drv' failed to build

which I'm sure will be fixed soon :)

Re: Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

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What I really want is a way to get a Pivotal Tracker-looking board in JIRA. Jira for the extra features. Things I love about tracker: - vertical view of the backlog - automatic timing estimates based on velocity - add deadlines and get automatic feedback on how you're going towards it For some reason I can't get this same clear board with a pull flow in jira.

PT is so much better than Jira, and I doubt you'll ever be able to replicate it in Jira. But once a company grows to a certain size the forced migration to Jira is inevitable. At that size the pointy hairs hire people who's only job is to twiddle bits on Jira, and they wouldn't have anything to do if you didn't migrate to Jira. Your only real choice at that point is to decline all meetings where jira is involved.

Re: Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

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I hold strict to: Backlog, Next, Now, Completed

Yea, each addition was lined with good intentions -- I don't want to prioritize the entire backlog but do want to filter out the worst ideas and the "hurry up and wait" stuff.

Sounds like one of those places where adding a new category can solve all categorisation issues except having too many categories.

Same principle holds for layers (of management, abstraction), levels of indirection etc.

Re: Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

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do you want a helm chart for this? the "requirements" page scares me, although I suspect this whole thing could be launched with a docker-compose / helm deploy very easily.

I ignored the requirements page entirely, downloaded it as a zip file into my existing (PHP-based) web server, unzipped it, and it basically worked immediately.

I think this would be the case for anyone else running a relatively modern existing PHP setup, and for everyone else they can just use the Docker image.

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