[HN Gopher] Elegant open source project tracking, Trello like bu...
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Elegant open source project tracking, Trello like but self-hosted
Author : thushanfernando
Score : 207 points
Date : 2024-03-18 10:16 UTC (12 hours ago)
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| ImHereToVote wrote:
| Looks really nice. Is there a roadmap Planka board?
| orblivion wrote:
| UI 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 wrote:
| I believe the demo doesn't connect to a database backend. Their
| GitHub says "without server features".
|
| https://github.com/plankanban/planka
| orblivion wrote:
| My sense is that the thing that makes the other sites laggy
| on my computer is UI stuff. Maybe not though.
| rpigab wrote:
| Looks nice, I selfhosted 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 wrote:
| WeKan 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
|
| Planka changed from MIT license to AGPL-3.0 license
| https://github.com/plankanban/planka
|
| There is Planka fork 4gaBoards with MIT license at
| https://github.com/RARgames/4gaBoards , newest change one hour
| ago.
| poidos wrote:
| Looks nice! An alternative is https://www.openproject.org/
| eps wrote:
| "Start free trial"
| zettabomb wrote:
| The 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.
| loganmarchione wrote:
| I 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
|
| [2] https://awesome-selfhosted.net/tags/task-management--to-
| do-l...
| alberth wrote:
| Since you use to use Focalboard, do use your Mattermost (chat)?
|
| Curious what your experience has been like using it?
| vrinsd wrote:
| I'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 wrote:
| I'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 wrote:
| Thanks for the hint! A friend recently asked about a kanban-
| style app, and they're already using Nextcloud.
| nico wrote:
| Looks 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 wrote:
| This one got a lot of attention a while back:
| https://github.com/smallhadroncollider/taskell
| xet7 wrote:
| For terminal, for example this, made with Rust:
| https://github.com/yashs662/rust_kanban
| nico wrote:
| Really like the look of this one, super cool
| bachmeier wrote:
| For 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/
|
| Note: The project is in maintenance mode, it hasn't shut down or
| been abandoned.
| KronisLV wrote:
| Also 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-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 wrote:
| Tangent - 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 wrote:
| Docker 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 wrote:
| Thank 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.
| oarsinsync wrote:
| > And yeah; how do you tink a 3-year old in 2050 is going
| to be able to setup his dev env?
|
| Dunno about 2050, but it wasn't particularly difficult in
| the 1980s.
| Elidrake42 wrote:
| The awesome selfhosted* list is a pretty good resource.
| While it does mention if there's a Docker container, I've
| found a few of the services without one listed do actually
| offer one, just have to search for it.
|
| * https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
| littlestymaar wrote:
| What's the point of using Docker for PHP apps?
|
| The main appeal of PHP for me has always been it's ability to
| work as a "serverless" execution environment, long before
| this marketing concept even existed, so hosting your own PHP
| on a cloud machine with Docker sounds really backward to me.
| diggan wrote:
| > What's the point of using Docker for PHP apps?
|
| Same reason you'd use Docker for anything, why would it
| matter if it's Python, PHP or Rust?
|
| Is there something specific about the language that makes
| Python (or other language) more suitable with Docker for
| you, compared to PHP?
|
| (Personally I only use Docker when I start to deal with
| multiple hosts/distributed architecture, which doesn't
| happen a lot tbh)
| beretguy wrote:
| Programmers these days like to overcomplicate things for
| some reason. I'm as puzzled as you are.
| diggan wrote:
| One person's over-complication is another person's
| simplification, it's only "hacked together" if someone
| else wrote it, etc, etc
| lolinder wrote:
| This comment shows a remarkable lack of curiosity. You're
| not the least bit interested to know why so many people
| find tools like Docker to be valuable?
| anonymous_union wrote:
| because raccoons like shiny things
| smokel wrote:
| It does show empathy, though.
|
| Docker has its advantages, but the approach also has a
| lot of disadvantages which are not so obvious to junior
| developers.
|
| Isolation seems fun, but the interfaces (Unix sockets
| where anything goes) are extremely brittle. Version
| management seems simple at first, but will become
| horrible once old containers offer no upgrade path in the
| future, or when the free hubs from today will become
| tomorrow's subscription model.
|
| I'm not advocating for PHP, but it sure made deployment
| of several websites on one machine extremely simple.
| Eventually version management destroyed some of the fun,
| which will probably happen with Docker containers as
| well, given enough time.
|
| Java's application servers were initially also hailed
| with similar enthusiasm as Docker containers, and look at
| the complicated mess that has become.
|
| To some, all that is old is new again.
| tunesmith wrote:
| For me, I have a cheap cloud server that handles multiple
| low-traffic personal websites, side projects, etc. Each
| project has a different tech stack and it can be months or
| years before I circle back to one to bring it up to date. I
| don't want to wrestle with making sure that I have the
| right versions of php and apache for my ubuntu. Having them
| all as docker containers makes it a lot easier, and a lot
| easier to move to new servers, too.
| KronisLV wrote:
| To add to this, for me it really helps to look at any
| piece of software that I want to run pretty much the same
| way, as a self-contained bundle, not unlike an app
| installed on a phone.
|
| I can give them resource limits the same way (CPU/memory
| limits, except easier than cgroups), as well as set
| restart policies and have a clear look at what's
| executing where, with something like Docker Swarm it
| becomes like systemd across multiple nodes and scaling
| up/down becomes easy, especially with load balancing for
| network calls. Software like Portainer also has pretty
| nice discoverability.
|
| Speaking of networking, I don't have to worry about
| tunnels or firewall configuration myself, can just expose
| a web server that acts as a reverse proxy and give
| everything else custom private networks that span across
| nodes (with something like Docker Swarm again, though
| Consul and Kubernetes have the same functionality,
| details aside).
|
| I can have custom port mappings (regardless of what the
| software uses, I might not even care about digging in
| some configuration file to change it), which is
| especially useful when running multiple separate
| instances on the same machine (like different versions of
| PostgreSQL, or separate instances for different
| projects), or hostnames in case I don't want to expose
| ports.
|
| I can easily have custom persistent/transient storage
| paths or even in memory storage (tmpfs), when I have
| persistent storage then suddenly backups become easy to
| do and I can be very clear about all other directories
| being wiped and being in a known state upon
| startup/restart. It's also immensely useful for me to
| escape the sometimes weird ways how software on *nix uses
| the file system, I can just mount my persistent files in
| /app/my-app/database/var/lib/postgresql/data or /app/my-
| app/web-server/etc/apache2/sites-enabled and know that I
| don't care about anything outside of /app.
|
| I can also treat Docker as lightweight VMs, except a bit
| more stateless, in that I can have container images that
| I base on a version of Debian/Ubuntu/Alpine or whatever,
| ship them, and then don't have to worry about a host OS
| update breaking something, because only Docker or another
| runtime like Podman is the actual dependency and most of
| the other software on the node doesn't come in contact
| with what I'm running. With rootless containers, that
| also improves the separation and security there a little
| bit.
|
| With all of that in place, suddenly I can even move apps
| and all of their data across nodes as necessary, load
| balance software across multiple nodes, be able to easily
| tell people how to run what I have locally and store and
| later use these images very easily. Are there pieces of
| software or alternatives (e.g. jails) that do a lot of
| the same? Sure, but Docker essentially won in ease of
| use.
| btbuildem wrote:
| For me, it's the simplicity. I don't have to care whether a
| project is super basic, or a thorny hairball from hell.
| Whatever it is, "docker run" is how I spin it up. It
| doesn't infect my local. I can have three differently
| hobbled versions of it side by side. Virtualization makes
| it simple, conceptually - and for me that's more precious
| than it being actually technically simple.
| lolinder wrote:
| I self-host a dozen or so different web apps locally on an
| old PC, and containers are what makes that feasible to do
| in my very limited spare time.
|
| If I tried to run all of these directly on the hardware
| with whatever minimal non-Docker setup each uses, I'd have
| a dozen update processes, a dozen different ways to start
| the server, and a dozen log files following a dozen
| different conventions for storage. I'd also have to be sure
| that each app I add either uses a different database and
| language runtime than the ones I've installed already or is
| compatible with the versions of those that I already
| installed.
|
| Instead, with Docker/Podman, I can use the same tool
| (compose files stored in a git repo) to manage all of the
| apps and their dependencies with zero risk of weird
| dependency issues across app boundaries.
| lnxg33k1 wrote:
| I always keep the host clean of any language, interpreter,
| tool, except for docker, and everything I run is ran within
| docker, I have multiple clients with multiple level of
| support and PHP versions needed, each project lives in its
| container
| magicalhippo wrote:
| For me the point of using Docker is that it's a unifies
| configuration and backups, and makes installation easier.
|
| I can easily see which directories or files to back up, and
| it's fairly explicit which knobs I've tweaked or config
| files I've changed, regardless of what stack the app relies
| on.
|
| It's also makes it much easier to roll back a version. Just
| take zfs snapshots of relevant directories before pulling
| new image, if it goes south just roll back snapshots and
| use the old image.
| kioshix wrote:
| I also use Kanboard, it's pretty decent.
| muppetman wrote:
| I didn't realise it'd moved into maintenance mode, where abouts
| is that detailed?
| kioshix wrote:
| https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard This
| application is in maintenance mode. What does it mean?
| Citing Wikipedia: In the world of software
| development, maintenance mode refers to a point in a computer
| program's life when it has reached all of its goals and is
| generally considered to be "complete" and bug-free. The term
| can also refer to the point in a software product's evolution
| when it is no longer competitive with other products or
| current with regard to the technology environment it operates
| within. - The author of this application is not
| actively developing any new major features (only small fixes)
| - New releases are published regularly depending on the
| contributions made by the community - Pull requests
| for new features and bug fixes are accepted as long as the
| guidelines are followed
| colonelpopcorn wrote:
| It's plug-in system is quite comprehensive. I just finished
| writing a note taking plug-in and the source code itself was a
| great reference for developing a plug-in.
| raphman wrote:
| Mind sharing a link if it is public?
| vrinsd wrote:
| Really great project, just wish nested tasks or sub-tasks was
| easier to interact with.
| lionkor wrote:
| Ive 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/
| remram wrote:
| https://github.com/makeplane/plane, AGPL
| h1fra wrote:
| Congrats on shipping. Elegant could be removed from title though
| @dang
| zettabomb wrote:
| It's written that way at the top of the README.
| jms703 wrote:
| Another open source project tracking alternative:
| https://kanboard.org/
| latchkey wrote:
| I personally would like to see less Trello and more Pivotal
| Tracker. Especially now that they've changed their pricing model.
| rjzzleep wrote:
| Even 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 wrote:
| i love kitemaker, and they're really responsive on their slack
| maayank wrote:
| Just use taskwarrior + git
| alchemist1e9 wrote:
| I use both also but not together.
|
| Can you elaborate on any synergy or connection you are
| referring to?
| LAC-Tech wrote:
| Manually having to sync with stuff like:
|
| git commit -am "update"
|
| is very tedious.
| sneak wrote:
| If 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 wrote:
| Gitlab's kanban board is very nice, integrated with its ticketing
| and, if you are on Gitlab, it is there already !
| scubbo wrote:
| I 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 wrote:
| Another cool tool for this is: https://kanboard.org/
| __fst__ wrote:
| If you use kanban as your personal to-do list I can recommend
| this Obsidian plugin:
|
| https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-kanban
| satellite2 wrote:
| With the demo client, I don't manage to create a list on an empty
| board on FF on Android.
| coldblues wrote:
| I'm surprised https://vikunja.io/ wasn't mentioned.
| vrinsd wrote:
| Yes! And it supports sub-tasks!
| huhtenberg wrote:
| Using 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].
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| [1] https://plankanban.github.io/planka
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| [2] https://i.imgur.com/6OPyn9W.png
| applied_heat wrote:
| I'm still using redmine, it doesn't look fancy but it works !
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