On 21 February 2018 at 14:05, Antonio Terceiro <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 11:40:00PM -0500, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: >> > - we probably need to get some feedback from DebConf team, they already >> > discuss[1] it, maybe somebody will be willing to comment in this thread. >> > Two specific questions for DebConf team: are you happy with Kanboard or >> > might you use another solution for 2019? Do you see a possibility of >> > running a shared instance of it or do you really want your instance to >> > be DebConf only? >> >> I've been using KanBoard for a while now, both for DebConf and for my >> job. I'm also the one doing most of the admin work for the >> kanban.debian.net instance at the moment. >> >> I can't speak for the DC19 folks, but I like KanBoard a lot. The main >> developer is doing a lot of work and KanBoard keeps improving. The >> available plugins are nice too. Overall, it seems like a mature project. >> >> We are currently in the process of migrating the kanban.debian.net >> instance to DSA infrastructure. DSA has been very responsive and the >> only reason this has not been done yet is that I don't have a lot of >> spare time these days. >> >> At the moment, this instance is hosted on the personal server of an >> ex-dc17 team member, and thus not suitable for massive usage. >> >> Once migrated to DSA infra, I have plans to make it available to the >> whole Debian project. I have to talk with DSA about it, but as I see it, >> the easiest path would be to use the Gitlab plugin and to let people >> authenticate using their salsa.debian.org account. >> >> If I had to give an ETA on this, I would say it should be done in 3 >> months? My university semester will be over and I should be a DD by >> then, making it easier for DSA to give me access to a VM. > > FTR, gitlab supports kanban boards for repositories where issues are > enabled. maybe using salsa for kanban boards would be an avenue worth > exploring instead of maintaining yet another service, since salsa is > already being maintained anyway. > > of course, KanBoard being a specialized tool, it probably has more > features and is way better than the gitlab kanban. or maybe, the gitlab > kanban is Good Enough™ for most uses.
Having used KanBoard a bit and despite having contributed a notification plugin I have to say I hate how cumbersome is the user interface. I guess partially it is because how slow was the machine the instance I used ran at, but nevertheless, I found another PHP-based software with kanbans, Phabricator, much easier to use despite also bundling a whole bunch of other tools deeply integrated with each other. I have also played with Taiga, but there's something in the default theme which makes me want to use something else. -- Cheers, Andrej
