JP Vossen on 24 May 2014 12:33:04 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Self-hosted "card wall" tool?

Quick update on this. I just received the following out of the blue, which I have to say is pretty cool. 


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Subject: Regarding your post : Self-hosted "card wall" tool?
Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 13:22:24 +0200
From: Support KADOS <support@kados.info>

Hello
you did a few months ago a small comparison with our tool Kados in a forum: http://lists.netisland.net/archives/plug/plug-2013-08/msg00042.html 
It was probably based on the 1.6 release
You noted some limits :-)

* Users need to manually refresh the browser page after updates.
* You can drag and drop cards to change the order, but order reverts and is lost after a refresh. 

* No good way to export:
   * Screen shots are good enough for this.
* It's MySQL, so you can dump text as usual (I have a nifty little query for this if anyone ever cares) 

* Cards do not auto-resize to fit contents, but do show a scroll-bar.
Just to let you know that some of them disappeared in the recent new 1.7 release if you are a Kados user : 
  - If you change order and use one of the refresh button, the order of
cards are preserved
  - Cards do not auto-resize, but you can resize them (not definitly,
but until you refresh the page - it's a JS functions) instead of having
a scrollbar.
  - there is Word export planned for the next release !

best regards
Olivia
English support for KADOS
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On 08/22/2013 03:37 AM, JP Vossen wrote:

On 08/14/2013 12:39 AM, JP Vossen wrote:

I'm looking for a "card wall" or Kanban tool that I can host internally.
  Trello.com would work great, but since that is cloud-based all the
security people's heads exploded (including mine, sort-of).

Linux (ideally CentOS) and free of cost is required (don't ask), F/OSS
preferred.  Any clues?


I wanted to follow-up on this.  Thanks for all the great ideas, some of
which worked out quite well!


Summary:

* Quick & dirty and limited but worked: https://code.google.com/p/kanbanik/

* Slightly harder to install and use, but prettier and more scalable:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kados/


Details:

As a stop-gap we ended up doing this, *internally*.  I got it up and
running in 10-20 minutes right before the con call for which I needed it.

https://code.google.com/p/kanbanik/
* mkdir -p /opt/kanbanik && cd $_
* wget
'https://kanbanik.googlecode.com/files/kanbanik-application-0.2.4-1.zip'
'https://kanbanik.googlecode.com/files/kanbanik-runtime-0.2.0.zip'
https://code.google.com/p/kanbanik/wiki/Install
* unzip -q '*.zip'
* ln -fs ../../../kanbanik-application/kanbanik.war
kanbanik-runtime/jetty/webapps
* chmod +x kanbanik-runtime/{start.sh,stop.sh}
* Fiddle around getting it to run:
   * Start/stop scripts require you to be in the correct dir.  Dumb...
   * cd /opt/kanbanik/kanbanik-runtime
   * ./start.sh

This gave us a shared Kanban, but rather limited:

* Users need to manually refresh the browser page after updates.
* It seems like everything is at the top level, no different sections
for different users = not scalable for more than a small team.
* You can drag and drop cards to change the order, but order reverts and
is lost after a refresh.
* We had a stability problem where it kept crashing, not sure why.
Possibly more than 3-4 users at 1 time?  If so, not scalable for more
than a small team.
* No good way to export:
   * Screen shots are good enough for this.
   * Can also dump card text like: /opt/kanbanik/kanbanik-runtime#
mongodb/bin/mongoexport --db kanbanikdb --collection tasks --csv
--fields 'workflowitem,ticketId,name' | sort
* It's not that pretty and the interface is a bit clunky.
* There does not seem to be an indication when a card contains test or
note in the "body."
* Cards do not auto-resize to fit contents.


Still, it worked quick & dirty and really saved the day for what we
needed to do!


But meanwhile, we outgrew Kanbanik, which worked *great* and really fast
for 1 board, but it is bogging down and we're hitting all the limits above.

[*] Download: http://www.kados.info/en/?page_id=68
     [x] http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/kados/kados_v1.6.0.zip
[*] http://docs.kados.info/install/
     * Assumes working PHP 5.3 and web server
     [*] mkdir /tmp/junk && cd $_
     [*] unzip -q /root/kados_v1.6.0.zip
     [*] cd new_install_v1.6.0
     [*] mv -v kados libraries /var/www/html
     [*] cd sql
     [*] mysql -u root -p
         [*] create database kados_db;
         [*] grant all on kados_db.* to 'kados_user'@'localhost'
identified by 'redacted';
     [*] cat create_database_v1.6.0.sql | mysql -u kados_user -p kados_db
     [*] vi /var/www/html/kados/conf/connect.conf
         [*] Set user and password
     [*] Log in as admin / admin
     [*] vi /var/www/html/kados/messages/en_ihm_messages.php
         [*] "KAnban" --> "Kanban"
     [*] Change language from Fr to En
     [*] Log out and back in!

Some limits:

* Users need to manually refresh the browser page after updates.
* You can drag and drop cards to change the order, but order reverts and
is lost after a refresh.
* No good way to export:
   * Screen shots are good enough for this.
   * It's MySQL, so you can dump text as usual (I have a nifty little
query for this if anyone ever cares)
* Cards do not auto-resize to fit contents, but do show a scroll-bar.


We're investigating alternatives, such as
http://www.redmine.org/plugins/ekanban which looks great, but fails to
install on a Turnkey Linux Redmine.  For details see my bug
https://github.com/samchen2009/ekanban/issues/36.

Also, it turns out we do have Jira internally, so I've asked if it has
or can get Greenhopper and if my team can use it.



Later,
JP
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