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Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

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

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Anyone know if this supports swim lanes, or nested boards?

Yes, you can make swimlanes in Kanboard. I've used it for several years now (self hosted), and can recommend it. Migrated from Trello some years ago. Mostly using it for small personal projects, but it seems to also scale well and has a lot of functionality.

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

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This is by the same person who made miniflux! It's a fantastic, minimal (just the right amount of functionality to be good ) RSS feed reader. It's how I got here :) https://miniflux.app/

It looks fantastic but I think they should have chosen sqlite over postgres in this case since it aims to be minimal

Have been self-hosting this on a raspberry pi for the last 2 years, and it has been completely painless. It just keeps chugging along without needing to take a look.

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

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Used it in a project, worked ok. One problem back then was it was desktop use only, using it on a tablet or phone didn’t work well, perhaps this has improved since then.

It's not perfect on a phone, but I use it on my Galaxy Android phone occasionally. AFAIK it works better in desktop mode, depending on what you want to do.

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

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Kanboard is featureful, simple to use, and very fast to load. Hosting wekan was a pain and the UX just sucked compared to Kanboard. I highly recommend Kanboard or Gitea’s kanban issue boards if you’re already using that.

If Gitea has kanban now, they're a great rec.

It actually does! It's called Projects.

Thus ends my search for a kanban board, since I already have Gitea.

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

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Maybe it's my age (after certain number one becomes super lazy..), but self host anything that requires me to install something is too much of an ask. Provide a binary that I can drop on my /remote/ machine and I may consider using it.

Docker containers solved this for me. I can’t remember the last time I installed a web app.

Yes, if I really want the software I will build a Docker image, but still I would prefer not to deal how to config/run Parcel/Webpack/Babel/Esbuild/Grunt/Whatever.

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

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Okay,so obsidian looks really cool but from what I see on their page it is not open source right? Any open source equivalents?

IMHO a very capable FOSS competitor for Obsidian is LogSeq ( https://logseq.com/ ). I use Logseq since 6 month and love it. There also exists a Kanban Plugin for LogSeq, which I have not yet tried... https://github.com/hkgnp/logseq-kanban-plugin

Looks Nice! Also interesting to see they are incorporated. Would be cool to watch how they evolve the product while also implementing a business plan.

But from the home page I don't directly get whether this is backed by markdown flat files or some other system, do you know?

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

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This is by the same person who made miniflux! It's a fantastic, minimal (just the right amount of functionality to be good ) RSS feed reader. It's how I got here :) https://miniflux.app/

Unrelated, but I was looking a very long time to re-discover this app (someone else posted it here some time ago). It was impossible to search for, and I haven't bookmarked it. And now I have it. Thank you!

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

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I actually ended up making a physical Kanban board at home in a central location. Relatively large corkboard using 3x5 index cards, with a few layers of backlog, in-progress lane with a hard cap of 2 cards, and about 1/3 of the space reserved for done cards. This last bit should be unnecessary in theory but I find psychologically satisfying to look at. This is for shared use by the family.

I also use a physical Kanban board on my kitchen fridge with Post-its. I have four columns (To Do, In Progress, Blocked, and Done) and three swimlanes (Everything Else on top, Books in the middle, and a Recurring lane at the bottom, where some cards temporarily park in Blocked until needing to happen again). The Done column works a little bit differently from a traditional Kanban, where it's reaped on a rolling basis - e.g. I work my way down the fridge, then start replacing the post-its at the top.

An interesting feature-not-bug is that my In Progress column is capped at four tickets, physically, by the ice maker.

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

...which can go right into git! You can even use it to update your GitHub wiki as Ben Christel does[0]. 0. https://github.com/benchristel/benchristel.github.io/wiki/

> Note: Search engines will not index the contents of wikis. To have your content indexed by search engines, you can use GitHub Pages in a public repository.

https://docs.github.com/en/communities/documenting-your-proj...

Otherwise it's a lightweight alternative to Obsidian Publish. The disadvantage, that it's limited to a common subset of GFM, Gollum, and Obsidian Markdown.

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