Comment by Emil Moe on "What are your favourite project management software for managing software development?"

@mjwrazor better not pollute another answer :-)

Yes it could be an idea to make it open source. Reality is probably that I wouldn't have enough time to support a closed source project.

Essentially I think I need something that can:

Members
- Username
- Email
- Image
Cards
- Time estimation
- Priority
- Description
- Comments
- Deadline
- Assignees
Backlog with cards
Kanban swimlanes (cards goes to swimlanes)
- Dragable between lanes
- Lane names
Card marked as done goes to archive

Of course more things. But these are the core features.

And some kind of feature that logs last time members read a card, so you know if someone read it and just forget to reply or never reads them :-)

Also email to those who are assigned or changes to cards they are assigned to.

Able to integrate with other platforms like gitlab in order not to make reinventions

Your Idea sounds a lot like Trello so far but there are so many things they could of added to Trello. It is pretty much a bare bones package.

Things I think would be useful for Freelancers

Time Tracker. (track time for specific projects/Pretty much a stop watch)
Project board. (different boards for different projects/companies)

Something else I thing would be useful overall would be [role] for members. Manager/project lead/team lead/specific development role/ admin and so on. Possibly change layouts for your specific role to tier to your use.

That is just something I have noticed with other apps, the lack of hierarchy along with roles. It all seems to be a pot of information with no upwards or downwards flow.

Of course these are just some of my ideas. I have been thinking of making something like this open source myself. Not sure what to build it on though. I was thinking Electron but could start out as just a web app at first.

@mjwrazor Yeah.. it's a lot like Trello and other apps out there. But as you say, they miss out some features for strange reasons and now Atlassian bought Trello, so who knows where it's gong.

I think it was Active.Collab that has a nice feature where you can put hourly prices on your project, so are able to see what the tracked time costs the customer. Might be a remote needed feature though.

I found this, still pretty ugly as most solutions unfortunately, http://kanban.leanlabs.io/. But it is kind of what I thought about. A backlog and repo on GitLab but extending the options and maybe combining it with other platforms too. This would allow the project mangers to access the platform while the programmers can use GitLab. (I haven't had a deeper look into it).

Well.. my implementation of choice is Laravel and VueJS, but I know it's not as widely used here on Hashnode.

I just realised GitLab already has a board with swimlanes haha.. That product seems more and more what I have been looking for!

@emilmoe well darn haha. Well the idea can always grow. It could end up being a large scale SOS product that could fulfill a large range of functionalities. Instead of having to use slack/github/gitlab/trello/scrum/timetrackingservice. It's a lot of clutter.

Hi Emil, because you're asking a straightforward question, may I suggest you a free online tool our team developed. It can display tasks Kanban mode and more, It’s called Zenkit. We even wrote an article about swimlanes, we’d love to have your feedbacks: blog.zenkit.com/dive-into-better-task-management-…

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