News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban by vincvinc on Thursday April 16, 2020 @02:28AM (#22886715)
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. Going to give this a try.

First impression: promising but seems a bit clunky/ugly compared to Trello. Hope I can contribute to the development in some way.

Re:Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban by ochrist on Thursday April 16, 2020 @03:04AM (#22886891)
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)
Re:Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban by bachmeier on Thursday April 16, 2020 @06:52AM (#22888108)
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 by midasz on Friday April 17, 2020 @04:32AM (#22897245)
Also running this on a raspberry pi I have stuffed somewhere in a closet, it's genuinely great. Web interface even works decently on mobile (mostly use it for viewing and dragging not creating issues).
Re:Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban by znpy on Thursday April 16, 2020 @03:22AM (#22886983)
That looks cool! Does it have APIs?

Edit: yes it has!

I'll be trying this tonight.

Re:Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban by adz_6891 on Thursday April 16, 2020 @03:18AM (#22886957)
While it is maintained by Atlassian, I found this react library really useful for making customized Trello boards for myself https://github.com/atlassian/react-beautiful-dnd

Creating cards that made sense for my use case was fun... I was going to play with adding a card type that I could work on to create notes with my apple pencil, a bit like postit notes... Anyway, a silly side project for me I guess, but worth a look if you're heavily invested in Kanban format

Re:Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban by oatsbarley on Thursday April 16, 2020 @03:36AM (#22887045)
I suppose this only affects you if you have a second account attached to your Trello boards, but there was a thread about Atlassian transferring ownership of personal boards to a company yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22873578

It's a specific pitfall that -- for a lot of people -- can be easily avoided, but it doesn't speak to them being friendly towards individual users.

Re:Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban by shashanktomar on Friday April 17, 2020 @01:07AM (#22896363)
Re:Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban by Angostura on Thursday April 16, 2020 @08:01AM (#22888510)
If you're a Teams user, there's Microsoft Planner.
Re:Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban by mattbk1 on Thursday April 16, 2020 @09:46AM (#22889288)
Thanks for this reminder. I wish I could view things in Gantt (rather than just calendar) format.
Re:Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban by recusive_story on Thursday April 16, 2020 @02:49AM (#22886833)
Github has a basic kanban board and since private repositories are free, it can be used as replacement to Trello.
Re:Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban by phillc73 on Thursday April 16, 2020 @09:02AM (#22888900)
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 by hermitcrab on Thursday April 16, 2020 @03:02PM (#22892386)
If you want a desktop (Windows and Mac) Kanban application you might want to look at: https://www.hyperplan.com

It is commercial software. I am the author.

Re:Wekan: Open-source, trello-like kanban by raybb on Monday April 20, 2020 @06:37PM (#22929582)
If you don't mind me asking, how do you organize your thinking/planning a cross boards/projects?