Kanban v2

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We’re working on a new Kanban plugin that will be more feature rich than the existing theme component and give us a more solid foundation on which to build and improve going forward.

Some of the features we’re planning for this new plugin include:

  • Allow admins to create and configure boards with a purpose built UI
  • Allow cards to be sorted by priority within columns on a board
  • Allow floating cards to be created without topics
  • Allow admins to control different levels of access to boards to specific users and groups

We’re building this initially as a separate plugin in this repo: https://github.com/discourse/discourse-kanban

Feedback, questions, and discussion about how things are progressing is welcome.

That said, it’s very much still a work in progress, and we’ll create a topic in News and Events > Announcements once it’s ready for wider usage.

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You can see an example of this new plugin in action here on meta now:

Something I’m wondering about as we get closer to publicizing this more widely is the name.

  • kanban
    This is what we’ve been calling it going all the way back to the theme component that’s been out for some time. It feels a bit jargon-y to me, but on the other hand, it’s a relatively well known term at this point.

  • boards
    Many products refer to similar feature sets simply as “boards”. we do this ourselves currently to refer to the boards themselves within the plugin. perhaps the plugin itself should just be named “boards”? on the other hand, in the forum world, “boards” often refer to “message boards”. would that be a poor choice in our case?

  • something else?
    Perhaps you have another idea about what to call this. If so, let us know!

We’ll decide soon either way…

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