Communications 2.0 [ Planning tools ]

[Tim]

I had a quick trawl of the web today, These are some of the more modern task management tools out there, all of which show how dated launchpad
is! This is just an overview of some of the options for you all to have a look at.

*Trello* - https://trello.com/ubuntudesktop
SaaS, but has a free tier
Ubuntu-desktop team started using this last year, it works quite well (so long as people actually use it and keep it up to date)
You can add lots of details to the cards, assign them to people etc.
Cons:
  - Can't assign priorities to tasks
  - Not too sure it would work well for overall team plans
  - Most Integrations like slack require a paid tier

*Taiga *- https://tree.taiga.io/project/darkxst-test
Foss with free hosted service for public projects
Has Slack integration and a very extensive API as well as webhooks
Has a rudimentry WYSIWYG Wiki section, that could be used for team plans etc (but no comments available)
There is a Fedora SSO plugin which maybe able to be ported to Ubuntu SSO easily, but not on the free hosted service.
Cons
  - May not scale well to cover multiple teams from the same project, all you can to is tag tasks with teams
  - And Having multiple projects, essentially becomes having multiple teams, so lots of admin overhead setting up all the projects
  - The KanBan view is quite limited (can't filter tags) compared to trello
  - It does feel quite limited compared to Trello, so far as the info you can add to tasks, but I guess its a slightly different target.

*Discourse* - http://discourse.ubuntu.com/
FOSS, self-hosted (although maybe possible for Canonical to host since clearly they have already done a code-review)
Is basically a next-gen forum on steroids
Wiki mode should work for team planning
Could maybe also cover support if people were active on there
Has Ubuntu/Gmail/etc SSO login
Has (I think) Slack integration
Cons
  - Would be next to useless for task tracking
  - Doesnt seem to have an API, just plugins

*Producteev* - https://www.producteev.com/features
SaaS, but with free Tier
I didn't bother to create a test instance, but looks more like a more traditional agile based task tracker, with quite a lot of features
Can create tasks by email, but otherwise no integrations apart from DropBox
Has an API

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Would something like one of the above help teams with their planning? Make it easier to track tasks? Would teams use it?

For the most part there is no Launchpad integration apart from Discourse SSO, for example if we wanted to import tagged bugs we would need
someone to write some scripts to push the data in via the API's

There are plenty of others out there, but they are either paid SaaS solutions or self-hosted FOSS solutions, the latter which remains a problem
since we don't have a server or a trusted sysadmin.