fd93 comments on The Most Minimal Kanban

submitted 1 year ago by fd93@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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Software design is weird. I wrote this article about implementing a minimal kanban board and the trade-offs I needed to make.

[–] nathanjent@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've often wondered if it would be possible to track work in a git repository like this. Cloning code is so easy with git because it's an industry standard but every git front end wants to reinvent task management. Some of them allow you to manage a project wiki in git. It would be convenient to be able to clone the task management repository alongside the code repository, too.

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[–] fd93@programming.dev [S] 2 points 1 year ago

Yep - I do it in the scripted version.

The main challenge is dealing with dynamic data in a way that won't mess up merge conflicts. Sort order is the main one and it's pretty bad because a merge conflict will result in multiple tickets with the same sort order. The best way I could think of in the slightly less strict paradigm of the plainban project was to keep a data.yml file for each column which records the sort order of tickets by storing them as a list of uuids and making their name a comment. That way it's very easy to keep track of the order of tickets on merge conflict in a way that's not possible in a central data source like a csv file.

sort_order:
    - abcd # my cool ticket
    - 1234 # another cool ticket
    - ab12 # final ticket

Will change current, less merge-friendly implementation to this when I get to it.