Wekan, the Open Source Free Self Hosted Trello Alternative
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Wekan is a free, open source competitor to Trello. Unlike Trello which is only available as a SaaS product, Wekan can be self hosted on your own infrastructure. MakeTechEasier has a guide on how to install Wekan on your own server.
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Installation on Ubuntu is a snap! (pun intended)!
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I need to get this up and running.
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Another home lab project, yay!
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5 Minute install (that includes Ubuntu16 clone time on my slow storage)... literally.
I did notice with the snap that when I created my first user, it appeared to throw an error message, but it still allowed me to log in after.
Edit: It appears that when using the Ubuntu Snap, the admin panel is not enabled automatically. For how to fix that, see the page https://github.com/wekan/wekan/blob/devel/CHANGELOG.md#v0111-rc2-2017-03-05-wekan-prerelease
This does not appear to be an issue if you are installing the application normally.
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How does the application look?
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@scottalanmiller said in Wekan, the Open Source Free Self Hosted Trello Alternative:
How does the application look?
Like Trello, ha ha. See my screenshot above. My internet is flaking out at the moment.
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I think I've stumbled across a number of bugs in the Ubuntu snap. I'm going to try to build it by hand and see what happens.
Edit: If I click on any of the cards to make changes, it tries to send me to 127.0.0.1 ...
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Maybe it is an early release?
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I installed manually following their Install instructions from (https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Install-and-Update#install-manually-from-source) and it works better now. I can actually click on the cards, lol.
You still get the error when you create the user. That appears to be because I do not actually have an SMTP server setup to send emails.
The admin page is simplistic. You can disable self-registration and allow only the folks you have invited to create an account. And you can also configure SMTP server settings, but I have not tested that.
Looks much better now...
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@Reid-Cooper said in Wekan, the Open Source Free Self Hosted Trello Alternative:
Maybe it is an early release?
Appears to be so. The install instructions that I followed pulled the most recent version from Git.
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How does this compare to Kanboard? Reading the feature list between the two, Kanboard appeard to have a few of the features I would consider to be critical for efficient use of a Kanban style approach like task dependencies, Gantt charts, Milestones, ability to copy a board's tasks to a new board (a la template). Curious is anyone has first hand comparison.
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@NashBrydges said in Wekan, the Open Source Free Self Hosted Trello Alternative:
How does this compare to Kanboard? Reading the feature list between the two, Kanboard appeard to have a few of the features I would consider to be critical for efficient use of a Kanban style approach like task dependencies, Gantt charts, Milestones, ability to copy a board's tasks to a new board (a la template). Curious is anyone has first hand comparison.
This one appears to have a hosted option... The style of task management and all is still the same though. Kanboard.net has likely been around longer.
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@dafyre said in Wekan, the Open Source Free Self Hosted Trello Alternative:
@NashBrydges said in Wekan, the Open Source Free Self Hosted Trello Alternative:
How does this compare to Kanboard? Reading the feature list between the two, Kanboard appeard to have a few of the features I would consider to be critical for efficient use of a Kanban style approach like task dependencies, Gantt charts, Milestones, ability to copy a board's tasks to a new board (a la template). Curious is anyone has first hand comparison.
This one appears to have a hosted option... The style of task management and all is still the same though. Kanboard.net has likely been around longer.
Kanboard does not look tied to Debian either. They took the time to give clear instructions (including SELinux needs on CentOS) for many systems
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Kanboard definitely looks a lot more polished.
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The one thing I still haven't been able to figure out just yet is how to create task dependancies so that setting one task's start time is dependant on its predecessor. This would let me properly display the Gantt chart with timelines aligned with expected completion. I know I've seen something once about how to set it up but I couldn't get it figured out and haven't had much time to get back to it.
