Moving Calligra / Kexi TODOs migrate into todo.kde.org

[Ben Cooksley]

On 29 July 2014 11:18, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
> BTW,
> Any idea how to add Categories of Tasks? The list is empty everywhere I think.

An administrator can create categories for you.

>
> While  Iunderstand rules of simplicity when for 3 users or so, I am
> also afraid one thing. There are dozens of users in our instance and
> no traces of access management (except for creating new boards).
> Everyone can (even by accident) edit/drag/drop/delete any tasks of any
> board...

That is correct. It does actually support restricting access to boards
- but then anyone who hasn't been added to the board can't even view
it.
In this case, one simply needs to trust that people will do the right thing.

Regards,
Ben

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>
> On 29 July 2014 00:52, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
>> On 29 July 2014 10:41, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
>>> On 29 July 2014 00:12, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
>>>> On 29 July 2014 09:54, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
>>>>> On 28 July 2014 20:36, Cyrille Berger <cberger at cberger.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sounds nice, do you know if it is possible to make the lists (or some of them)
>>>>>> public ?
>>>>
>>>> Hi Jaroslaw, Cyrille,
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Good question, I've not found any board's settings.
>>>>>
>>>>> @Martin, Ben?
>>>>
>>>> I'm afraid Kanboard does not support making boards directly public at
>>>> the moment - however it can produce a "read only" URL which anyone can
>>>> use to access it. Anyone with an Identity account can access it
>>>> however.
>>>> This is https://todo.kde.org/?controller=board&action=readonly&token=95edd35971d17b59a084348500139ab7dd53798e5c58ec9e03483c5dfc2c
>>>> for the Calligra board.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks Ben.
>>> Another question is about support for working groups (not per boards).
>>> Can this be set up by separating the database for example? For now
>>> there're kind-of usability challenges already:
>>
>> This would require a separate instance of Kanboard, and would create
>> two places for people to work in. I'd rather not have that...
>>
>>>
>>> * we need to pick users from a long list when filtering or assigning tasks
>>> * we need to pick board from a list that's getting longer (see, today
>>> 4 new created for Calligra and there would be many more)
>>>
>>> Looks like there may be many more wishes from hungry users :)
>>
>> Please note that Kanboard is OSS software, which is hosted on Github.
>> Someone has already been in contact with the maintainer for it, and
>> from what I understand they may be interested in adding certain
>> functionality.
>> At this time, the list of boards is not too long (and is searchable
>> anyway) so I don't think that will pose a problem.
>>
>> In regards to assigning people, that indeed does appear to be
>> functionality which could be improved - however I think search rather
>> than grouping would be more helpful here.
>>
>> Giving each project their own instance is unsustainable i'm afraid -
>> and wouldn't cure the list of users problem anyway, as it requires
>> login to view unless you have one of the readonly URLs - and once
>> someone has logged in their account now exists within Kanboard.
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
>>>>>  Kexi & Calligra & KDE | http://calligra.org/kexi | http://kde.org
>>>>>  Qt for Tizen | http://qt-project.org/wiki/Tizen
>>>>>  Qt Certified Specialist | http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ben
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
>>>  Kexi & Calligra & KDE | http://calligra.org/kexi | http://kde.org
>>>  Qt for Tizen | http://qt-project.org/wiki/Tizen
>>>  Qt Certified Specialist | http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ben
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>
>
> --
> regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
>  Kexi & Calligra & KDE | http://calligra.org/kexi | http://kde.org
>  Qt for Tizen | http://qt-project.org/wiki/Tizen
>  Qt Certified Specialist | http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek