Evaluating waffle.io

[LukasChen]

@VillageHubertChen commented on Thu Apr 07 2016

• [x] HC: Check if it has feature set we want → Yes. Fore details see Features below
• [x] HC: Check cost → Zero Cost It is free for pubic open source repositories
• [x] HC: Check safety → Very safe Check **Safety below for more details
• [x] HC: Get impressions from LC & SL → Great first Impressions, see Impression below
• [x] HC: Is it possible to have one SCRUM Board of several Repositories? → Yes. How to do is described in their FAQ Wiki. It works straight forward and so far reliable.
• [ ] HC: Check if there is an even better alternative to Waffle → Alternatives to Waffle / Adding SCRUM Kanban to GitHub

  Features

  Weight to Issue

You can rate the importance of an Issue, which is considered when computing how much of your Milestone is completed. This gives a more precise arithmetic than the GitHub Milestone Progress bar.

SCRUM Board

• It is very easy to build a SCRUM board with custom columns as we need it

  Cards move automatic across SCRUM Board

These events can move cards automatically if board is set up accordingly

• Changing labels
• Pull Request
• Merge

  You choose to work on GitHub or Waffle or both

• Your changes made in Waffle are automatically updated to GitHub Issues
• Your changes made in GitHub Issues are automatically updated to Waffle
• You can choose to do some things on one and other things in the other UI

  Visualization of Work

A chart where you can see how many Pull Requests and how many Issues closed per week

Safety

• You can log in with GitHub. When doing so GitHub shows that you only read data which are publicly available already. As such there is no additional security risk of confidential data leaking out.

  Impressions

  Works like Trello

This makes for almost zero learning curve

Very nice layout

Looks better than GitHub or Trello. It is fun to work with

Written in Angular

Lukas loves it.

Feels very clean and efficient!

It is just a feeling. But an important one. All I have seen so far looks very clean, structured and efficient. E.g. I could set up a Waffle board for an existing V² GitHub repository in minutes, including checking data safety.

Reference

• Waffle Home Page
• V² Site Issues on Waffle Board
• Waffle Pricing
• Waffle Recommended Workflow

[VillageHubertChen]

Alternatives to Waffle / Adding SCRUM Kanban to GitHub

Project Management for GitHub Issues

Alternatives

Reviews of Alterbatives

• https://www.quora.com/Which-project-management-tools-are-deeply-integrated-with-GitHub
• http://liftux.com/using-github-issues-project-management/
• http://www.thesambarnes.com/digital-project-management/web-project-management-and-collaboration-using-github/

List of Alternatives

• https://waffle.io/
• https://zube.io/
• https://www.zenhub.io/
• https://overv.io/
• https://huboard.com/
• https://codetree.com/
• https://sprint.ly/
• Trello with GitHub Integration

Zenhub

Zenhub Pros

• Manage everything within GitHub UI (but only if you install a browser plugin)
• Free for Open Source
• Link several repositories to one board
• Very nice filtering on the board
• Very nice UI
• All work is done in GitHub UI. Added new features:
  • Pipeline (Column in Kanban Board)
  • Estimate
  • Epics

Zenhub Cons

• If no plugin installed, you do not see work status in GitHub Issues
  • If you want to see it, you need manually double labels
  • Instead Waffle is transparent here
• If no plugin installed, you can not see anything
• We can not link to a SCRUM board in our V²Pages, as there is no board generated as a service. Only users who installed the plugin can see the scrum board
• Readers of V²Site who are exploring what we have can not use it. See description above