Find a Kanban solution that integrates with GitHub

[jonrh]

Summary: At the moment the two most prominent options are as follows:

• Waffle, free, basic
• ZenHub, $75, full-featured

Waffle is free and allows us to have a Kanban board view of our projects issues. If we adopt a certain workflow Waffle will update automatically. ZenHub will cost but it's a more full-featured product giving us an option for a burndown chart estimations.

With GitHub integrations

Prices listed is what we'd have to pay for the 3 months wee need it for. Where appropriate I include Twitter accounts of the products. I've found in my personal experience that number of followers and recent activity is a decent indicator of a good & maintained product.

Note that none of these solutions seem to offer time tracking for individual tasks.

• Waffle.io Free. Recommended by some friends, example. They said it was pretty simple and barebone, basically a Trello for GitHub. Twitter: ~2500 followers, active.
• ZenHub $75. A Chrome extension that augments the GitHub website by injecting their own code. Essentially extending GitHub. Provides pretty extensive features. Twitter: ~1000 followers, fairly active.
• HuBoard $72. Website doesn't cover feature availability very well. Twitter: ~500 followers, fairly active.
• Jixee $60. Seems to be a fairly complete product. Twitter: ~1300 followers, not very active, last tweet ~1.5 month ago.
• SweepBoard. Didn't look much into it, seems to be a very simple solution. Twitter: ~800 followers, active but it's the account of the company, no recent tweets on SweepBoard.
• Blossom $66. Twitter: ~3100 followers, very active. Claims to have support for GitHub issues but it's actually work in progress. Discovered when trying out, not recommended.

  Without (officially) GitHub integration

These are solutions that could work. In my research I found a solution called Zapier. From what I've read it's essentially a tool to make different services work together. I've no personal experience with it but saw it mentioned few times. The integration links point to the integration to GitHub for each.

Update: I investigated Zapier a bit more. It's incredibly brilliant, but I fear it'll entail too much work to get working properly. 12 weeks is not long enough to justify it I think. Beside, Zapier may cost us $20 to $50 per month which will put the total tally to be too high.

• KanbanTool, ~€100, integration. I've personally used this product for 1-2 years. Very good experience, very simple and customisable. What I like most about it is being able to keep track of time. I have an account with discount for €6/month per user. Twitter: ~1700 followers, fairly active.
• Trello, integration. Used this as well. Very nice, but no time tracking. Twitter: ~112.000 followers, very active.
• KanbanFlow, $75, integration. Twitter: ~1100 followers, not very active.

  Other potential Solutions

• Asana. From what I can see it's more designed to be a general team work solution. There is an integration to GitHub but only for commits to track progress. This seems to be a really nice and popular solution but probably not what we are looking for if we are aiming to use GitHub issues and pull requests in a Kanban style. Twitter: ~105.000 followers, very active.
• Jira. I've used Jira before. It's a very good product but probably a overkill for only 12 weeks. There is a lot of setup and learning curve to it. Works better for long-term projects.

[jonrh]

We have more or less settled on ZenHub. There may be some issues with it though on two fronts:

• ZenHub seems to want an organisation to do things. We have a private repo
• We may try to go back to the repo provided by UCD, but it's still a bit up in the air if we'll get the needed discount (the org has over 50 members)

[jonrh]

I'm considering this done for now. If there will be any issues with I'll re-open.