We had the same issue at work and finally decided to use Taiga
<https://taiga.io/>. It was the perfect answer for our requirements but
highly oriented to Scrum projects.

2017-10-03 21:13 GMT+02:00 Nuritzi Sanchez <nurit...@stanfordalumni.org>:

> Hey Sri, I was hoping to take a look at GitLab's kanban board since I
> actually do think it could work for engagement and marketing and it could
> then help people unfamiliar with that structure to be more comfortable in
> participating in dev teams later on. At Endless, we've moved our marketing
> and community teams to our kaban board tool (Phabricator).
>
> Could we set up a test case? Maybe that's something we can look into
> together at GNOME.Asia.
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 12:36 PM Alexandre Franke <afra...@gnome.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 8:25 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>
>>> wrote:
>>> > I'd like to start moving away from the wiki for our project management
>>> and
>>> > move to something that is focused on team based things.  I did some
>>> > evaluation, and I'd like to propose fluxday.io.  It is very similar
>>> to what
>>> > we are using at work, which is dapulse which I've been digging a lot.
>>> I
>>> > just feel that what we have is clunky and hard to use and is not
>>> efficient.
>>> > Tell me what you guys think?
>>>
>>> Like I always say to my customers when they come to me and ask me for
>>> this or that tool: what is the problem you are trying to solve?
>>> “Project management” is not an acceptable answer. ☺ I’m never opposed
>>> to any tool (software license and privacy are not an issue here since
>>> it’s Free and we would host our instance) but one should use a tool
>>> because it is the right one for their task at hand, not because it
>>> looks cool.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I am definitely trying to solve a problem.
>>
>> We are doing project management through a wiki and etherpad.  This is a
>> horrible way to set and figure out the tasks.  While there is no native
>> client for project management we seem to be blessed with many open source
>> project management software that we can try out and see if we can help
>> track our tasks.  We don't have a lot of resources, and having software
>> that maximizes our productivity given our constraints is a good thing.  For
>> instance, GNOME releases would be a lot more easier if we have all that
>> mapped out with tasks already set.
>>
>>
>>> Same logic applies to kanban boards (someone recently said we should
>>> use gitlab because it has kanban boards).
>>>
>>
>> We could look at it, but gitlab doesn't really deal well with engagement
>> and marketing I would reckon right?  I'm willing to look at existing things
>> we have already.. I will look into gitlab's kanboard stuff.  Although I'm
>> not that impressed with kanban.
>>
>>
>>> > I'd like to try to spin up a docker instance somewhere and see if we
>>> can
>>> > test it.
>>>
>>> Sure, testing is always good.
>>>
>>
>> Indeed.
>>
>> sri
>>
>>
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