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 spent AGES trying to do this and trying out all sorts of apps.
The best solution (for me at least) was self-hosting Nextcloud and using its Calendar and Tasks apps (and using it’s CalDAV to keep tasks and appointments in sync in various apps across my devices). I’ve never got the hang of Kanban so can’t comment on how good it is. I also keep my scratchpad/fleeting notes using Nextcloud Notes.