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Elegant open source project tracking, Trello like but self-hosted
- ImHereToVote 3y agoLooks really nice. Is there a roadmap Planka board?
- orblivion 3y agoUI seems smoother than Trello or Wekan (on my rather slow machine). Though maybe it's because the demo board doesn't have very much data compared to what I have on those other two. And maybe it has fewer features thus far to bloat the frontend.
- loganmarchione 3y agoI believe the demo doesn't connect to a database backend. Their GitHub says "without server features". https://github.com/plankanban/planka https://github.com/plankanban/planka
- orblivion 3y agoMy sense is that the thing that makes the other sites laggy on my computer is UI stuff. Maybe not though.
- rpigab 3y agoLooks nice, I selfhosted https://github.com/wekan/wekan https://github.com/wekan/wekan for a while, which is a MIT licensed heavily Trello-inspired alternative, does someone know both Wekan and Plankanban and can tell their differences?
- xet7 3y agoWeKan has MIT license. As maintainer of WeKan, I'm adding major new features to WeKan. WeKan features are listed at https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Deep-Dive-Into-WeKan https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Deep-Dive-Into-WeKan Planka changed from MIT license to AGPL-3.0 license https://github.com/plankanban/planka https://github.com/plankanban/planka There is Planka fork 4gaBoards with MIT license at https://github.com/RARgames/4gaBoards https://github.com/RARgames/4gaBoards , newest change one hour ago.
- poidos 3y agoLooks nice! An alternative is https://www.openproject.org/ https://www.openproject.org/
- eps 3y ago"Start free trial"
- zettabomb 3y agoThe base functionality is free (and this is far more than a basic kanban). If you want more enterprisey features it's paid, although I don't believe it's too difficult to bypass the license check.
- johnchristopher 3y agoThey really aren't the same beast, though. It's like people are posting their preferred project manager without even checking out what planka brings to the table. So many kanboard comments.
- loganmarchione 3y agoI switched to Planka after Focalboard went community-supported[1], but failed to appoint any community leaders. So far, I'm very happy with Planka for my needs at home. There are more self-hosted options in this link[2]. [1] https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard [2] https://awesome-selfhosted.net/tags/task-management--to-do-lists.html https://awesome-selfhosted.net/tags/task-management--to-do-l...
- alberth 3y agoSince you use to use Focalboard, do use your Mattermost (chat)? Curious what your experience has been like using it?
- vrinsd 3y agoI'm not the parent-level poster but I've stood-up a Mattermost instance a few times and it's really easy to get going and is good for a text-IM/DM channel/group service. The desktop app or web-based interface work quite well and the architecture is pretty sane, Javascript front-end, golang-based "backend", Postgres database. But, there are some frustrating aspects. LDAP is only available in the "enterprise" edition which is kind of crazy and there is no price-break for < 10 users. So for personal / non-commercial usage if you want LDAP you're placed into an enterprise bucket. I reached out to Mattermost and pointed this out and even said "Hey, what about offering a 10-user license for some reasonable fee?" No response.
- colordrops 3y agoI'm frankly not a fan of the monolithic NextCloud, but the "Decks" feature has good UX and a mobile app on Android, which pretty much nothing else in the open source community has pulled off.
- lolc 3y agoThanks for the hint! A friend recently asked about a kanban-style app, and they're already using Nextcloud.
- npteljes 3y agoI suggest to actively keep up with Nextcloud project. They have a lot of things going on, and add nice things over time. "Notes" for example is also useful.
- npteljes 3y agoThat's what I'm switched to, especially since I already use Nextcloud as a cloud backend for my phone. From the kanban suggestions, I tried kanboard in the past, but really disliked the mobile experience. In this regard, Deck is much better, and it has at least two ways to access the boards; one is the Nextcloud Deck companion app, and the other is the jtx board, which stores its tickets in a way that they can be synced with CalDav. So by using Nextcloud Deck, one is not even locked in into one application / provider.
- nico 3y agoLooks really good, great work! Anyone knows of something like this but for the terminal? I’m building a job searching app for the terminal and a main upcoming feature is to have application tracking within the app. It would be great to use a kanban system for it Thank you!
- bachmeier 3y agoThis one got a lot of attention a while back: https://github.com/smallhadroncollider/taskell https://github.com/smallhadroncollider/taskell
- xet7 3y agoFor terminal, for example this, made with Rust: https://github.com/yashs662/rust_kanban https://github.com/yashs662/rust_kanban
- nico 3y agoReally like the look of this one, super cool
- bachmeier 3y agoFor someone that's not a web developer, I found Kanboard to be the easiest to set up, and it has all the basic features you'd expect. It's a traditional PHP app where you copy the files to your web server and set a few configuration options and you're good. If you want to use it locally, you download it, run php -S localhost:8080, and start using it. https://kanboard.org/ https://kanboard.org/ Note: The project is in maintenance mode, it hasn't shut down or been abandoned.
- KronisLV 3y agoAlso available as a Docker image, for example: docker run -p 80:80 -t kanboard/kanboard:v1.2.8 https://docs.kanboard.org/v1/admin/docker/#running-the-container https://docs.kanboard.org/v1/admin/docker/#running-the-conta... (that page has info about persistent storage, configuration and so on) Honestly one of the fastest and least "bloated" pieces of software in recent memory, way more responsive than something like OpenProject (which I use as a self-hosted Jira replacement for my personal needs), as long as the feature set is enough for you. I did rather enjoy the cost reports of OpenProject, as well as having all of my usual epics and whatnot, but kanban works better for smaller projects than scrum.
- samstave 3y agoTangent - is there a Docker Wherehouse where I can find dockers to DL an run, that HN would suggest and some use cases of "pull a docker from here to do X - super cool"
- tomrod 3y agoDocker hub has been one of the primary registries. Each of the cloud providers typically have their own concept for docker or image repositories, and you can build docker files locally of you have a docker file in source code.
- samstave 3y agoThank you, I was more looking for use-case as opposed to a barf of all dockers.... "I want to do TASK so here are all the dependencises for you to do TASK and how they will link" --- And yeah; how do you tink a 3-year old in 2050 is going to be able to setup his dev env? Do you want him to learn binary.
- lionkor 3y agoIve had great success with Kanboard, but at BeamMP we use plane[0], self-hosted. Apart from the lack of github integration, it does the job for our small team. [0]: https://plane.so/ https://plane.so/
- remram 3y agohttps://github.com/makeplane/plane https://github.com/makeplane/plane, AGPL
- bberenberg 3y agoCan you share why you’re pointing this out?
- drunkan 3y agoThis is the closest looking open source one I’ve seen to linear which is by far the best kanban I’ve used maybe one inspired the other, either way looks good though linear is so polished. Introduced it to a client and it gets heavy use and the cycles concept is well liked
- remram 3y agoWhat is this monstrosity. This is the first time I see software that runs in docker-compose but has to be installed with a setup.sh run as root. What the hell is wrong with those people? Whatever setup steps are required, put them in the container!
- rbut 3y ago100% agree. When we installed it we looked at the setup.sh and extracted what was needed from it. It was as simple as: curl -o docker-compose.yaml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/makeplane/plane/master/deploy/selfhost/docker-compose.yml curl -o .env https://raw.githubusercontent.com/makeplane/plane/master/deploy/selfhost/variables.env vim .env # adjust for your environment docker compose up -d I really don't understand how the above is too complex that it required the creation of a bash script. Some other notable docker-based projects that I've seen require an .sh are Sentry [1] and Postal [2]. [1] https://develop.sentry.dev/self-hosted/ https://develop.sentry.dev/self-hosted/ [2] https://docs.postalserver.io/getting-started/prerequisites https://docs.postalserver.io/getting-started/prerequisites
- h1fra 3y agoCongrats on shipping. Elegant could be removed from title though @dang
- zettabomb 3y agoIt's written that way at the top of the README.
- jms703 3y agoAnother open source project tracking alternative: https://kanboard.org/ https://kanboard.org/
- latchkey 3y agoI personally would like to see less Trello and more Pivotal Tracker. Especially now that they've changed their pricing model.
- rjzzleep 3y agoEven though it's not open source, just free(for very small projects), I have been really liking kitemaker.co I'm curious what other people think of their approach, and whether that should be a model for open source kanban boards to follow. It's not Trello, which is way to flexible turning work items into a mess, but it's not Jira either. For me it seems to nicely fit the sweet spot of structure and ease of use.
- TomasEkeli 3y agoi love kitemaker, and they're really responsive on their slack
- maayank 3y agoJust use taskwarrior + git
- alchemist1e9 3y agoI use both also but not together. Can you elaborate on any synergy or connection you are referring to?
- maayank 3y agoMy flow for a time was having ~/.task as a git repo and then when moving devices (laptop<->workstation<->home comp) sync using git :)
- LAC-Tech 3y agoManually having to sync with stuff like: git commit -am "update" is very tedious.
- winrid 3y agoSetup a cron!
- otabdeveloper4 3y agoThanks but no thanks.
- winrid 3y agoCould also have a file watcher that auto commits. I imagine there's already a plugin that does that.
- maayank 3y agoNothing an autocomplete shell doesn't solve :)
- sneak 3y agoIf you are already selfhosting Gitea, it has a nice kanban-style project board view that works similarly. This is what I use, and find it to be pretty good. It’s not as good as a dedicated solution but it’s one less app I have to tend to, and the Gitea backups are already mega mission critical so the PM stuff (and issues and wikis) get this vigilance baked in for free.
- liotier 3y agoGitlab's kanban board is very nice, integrated with its ticketing and, if you are on Gitlab, it is there already !
- scubbo 3y agoI tried installing OpenProject on my homelab (for tracking tasks related _to_ my homelab), only to find that it was missing the one feature I really wanted - identifying dependencies and blockers (i.e. "I can't install X until I install Y, but Y needs a feature that requires an update to Z, and updating Z requires I tweak config in A" - where I'm perfectly happy to manually write out X/Y/Z/A as tickets myself, but I want a tool to tell me that "A" is an unblocked task I can pick up). Any suggestions for a tool that can do that?
- ulrischa 3y agoAnother cool tool for this is: https://kanboard.org/ https://kanboard.org/
- __fst__ 3y agoIf you use kanban as your personal to-do list I can recommend this Obsidian plugin: https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-kanban https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-kanban
- satellite2 3y agoWith the demo client, I don't manage to create a list on an empty board on FF on Android.
- coldblues 3y agoI'm surprised https://vikunja.io/ https://vikunja.io/ wasn't mentioned.
- vrinsd 3y agoYes! And it supports sub-tasks!
- winrid 3y agoIt looks like this has a public view too you can share to customers?
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- huhtenberg 3y agoUsing the "client demo" [1] - once a new project is added and a new board is added to that project, how do you add a list? There seems to be just a blank canvas, basically [2]. [1] https://plankanban.github.io/planka https://plankanban.github.io/planka [2] https://i.imgur.com/6OPyn9W.png https://i.imgur.com/6OPyn9W.png
- applied_heat 3y agoI’m still using redmine, it doesn’t look fancy but it works !
- winrid 3y agoI've been using Asana for years but there have been a lot of quality issues with the software... and various bugs that just don't get fixed. They also put columns and some sorting options behind a paywall. Are there any similar OSS tools? I just need task tracking that works offline, on mobile, let's me filter/sort, and creating public shareable links for customers would be a nice bonus. It's probably something I could whip up in an hour with Django but open to options.
- dools 3y agoI did some work about a year ago modifying Trellinator to support WeKan, and would like to do the same here. When I did that I made a comprehensive list of things that were missing from the WeKan API to provide a fully functional drop-in replacement for existing Trellinator code. I can't see any API documentation, is it somehow Trello-like?
- johnchristopher 3y agoThere's an API, a year ago I had a nifty little script that would pull all my incomplete tasks for the day.
- khqc 3y agoAnyone using icescrum? I like how it can be self-hosted
- ensocode 3y agoCame here to say the same. Kanboard is great and has a nice plugin concept. But I think this one is indeed more elegant and looks very modern. Good job!
- goneri 3y agoI'm surprised nobody mention Taiga - https://taiga.io/ https://taiga.io/. It was a great contender when we compared it with Trello a couple of years ago and it's also a FreeSoftware - https://github.com/taigaio/taiga https://github.com/taigaio/taiga.
- DrMachiavel 3y agoDoesn't bother anyone to just copy/paste an existing software and build it in Open Source?
- TheMiddleMan 3y agoYeah it feels weird to me too. Similar/inspired-by software is fine but if a commercial project were to rip off everything down to the style and design of an existing app it would not be okay at all, what makes it okay if it's open source?
- KomoD 3y agoNope, does not bother me at all when someone rips off Atlassian software
- xchip 3y agoThanks! I though that 6Mb is a little too much though.