In preparation for the new year, I’ve been looking for a “better” way to manage what I’m “doing” and looking for a better task-board / ticket manager / project management solution to replace my current unholy and very-cursed mess involving paper notes on a whiteboard (magnets FTW), issues in Gitea (self-hosted) and a whole bunch of .md files in a git repository.
I tried out self-hosting Leantime in my development Docker environment. That was a waste of effort. It’s crowded chock-full of “premium” links that just take you to the paid plugin store. I fully expect artificial limits and nerfs to be enforced, too, if one doesn’t pay. (Their “pricing” page even alludes to this, stating that “self-hosted” includes the same as their cloud’s “free” tier. That would be 150 tasks. That’s borderline useless!)
Why ever would I self-host that? Even if I did, how could I trust it to remain free for the features I need, if it paywalls features in the self-hosted scenario? If I self-host it, I’d also want to be free to hack on it and potentially push merge-requests to an open-source project – why would I ever do that for a paywalled app I don’t get paid to work on?
My Docker dev. environment runs off a tmpfs so the daemon got stopped, umount /var/tmp/docker, and that shall be the last I ever see of Leantime. Good riddance.
The search continues. I’m open to suggestions of what’s worth trying, though. Lemmy, what would YOU actually trust?
I recently installed Planka and am very happy with it. It’s a straight clone of Trello except blazing fast and foss.
https://planka.app/
This is perfect if you’re going the kanban route, which is arguably sufficient. It’s nice that they have different deployments and a demo.
I do like putting task-cards in columns and dragging them from left to right but I’m explicitly not going the Kanban route nor the Scrum route. I reject the prescriptivism that inevitably accompanies those “brand name” methodologies, even while I acknowledge that both methodologies do encompass several excellent ideas one might usefully borrow.
In fact, I always rather liked Trello simply because one could do whatever the heck one wanted with its boards – and the hotkeys were brilliant. (If I test out Planka, hotkeys will be evaluated for sure!)
Sadly, Trello devolved into and, yeah, I wouldn’t touch any Atlassian[1] product with a barge pole, today, nor have I in years.
Do they still charge for dark-mode in some of their products? Anyone who has managed a large team that includes neuro-diverse developers knows that dark-mode is tantamount to an accessibility feature and charging for it is just a dic•-move. ↩︎
Ta. Along with Taiga – which is presently first in the queue to try out[1] – I’ve added Planka simply because it looks so immensely and elegantly simple and down-to-earth. I shall not be surprised if Planka wins out from pure simplicity: that would be the same reason why I migrated my self-hosted environment to Gitea (from GitLab)
Planka actually looks to do precisely what I want where as Taiga appears to be an Eierlegende Wohlmilchsau. The latter is great when one actually wants wool, milk and pork, but I’m thinking I only want the eggs. ;)
Planka’s live demo is just so easy, too. And it does Markdown footnotes which Taiga doesn’t. I could live without them but… I LIKE FOOTNOTES. ↩︎