New user: First impressions and some thoughts & comments

[Per Haglund]

Hi folks,

I installed Flyspray yesterday. It feels like it will be useful to me so I thought I'd let you know how I'm using it (as the website requests :) ).

I'm a one-man company making apps. Occasionally I've outsourced work to various contractors but right now it's just me.

I've been using Trello for years because it was a fairly non-technical tool that was intuitive enough for illustrators to use while also ok for an agile developer. I'd have a few boards, including some where I'd try to plan the 'big-picture' for my apps. But I also had 'tasks' left in my inbox, written on a whiteboard, a notebook, loose sheets of paper etc.

Coming back to work last week I did an overhaul of this mess, and concluded that Trello wasn't the right tool for collecting and organizing my work (features, issues, new apps). It is way too easy to create a bunch of lists and cards which look slick and organized but are inefficient to work with and take up a lot of UI space. Flyspray was really easy to install, more compact and effective. Well done!

Here are some minor thoughts and comments from the perspective of a new user.

- Installation: Instructions on the website included some redundant steps that the web-wizard took care of, namely the DB creation.

- Changes I made: Needed a custom field for which game 'engine' a task relates to. Since I'm a single-user, I created user accounts for each 'engine' and use the "Assigned To" field to set the 'engine' (renaming the string)

- I don't think tasks in a subcategory surface when you search for the parent category

- Summary field in task list truncates with ellipses (...) a bit too soon for my taste, for example: "Balloon Pop: Implement dynamic "Full game is more fun" ..."

- Some reactions on tags (I realize the are WIP, and the below comments may already be addressed)

-- Background color visually intrusive in tasklist

-- Would want a separate column in task list for visual balance

-- Don't appear to be searchable

- I'd like to know how to change and set keyboard shortcuts. In particular, in a task the shortcut for editing is alt+shift+e, which feels cumbersome compared to some single-key shortcuts. Also, I'd like a shortcut to go from a task back to the task list.

Let me know if you want any additional information.

Keep up the good work!

Cheers,

Per

[Per Haglund]

Answering my own question: I poked around the source code and saw that 'u' is defined to return to task list from a task detail view. This wasn't listed in the "Available keyboard shortcuts" popup.

Cheers,

Per

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[peterdd]

- Changes I made: Needed a custom field for which game 'engine' a task relates to. Since I'm a single-user, I created user accounts for each 'engine' and use the "Assigned To" field to set the 'engine' (renaming the string)

Creative workaround. You may also use the tag feature for this. 

Custom fields are not implemented yet (and not coming in short future ..)

- I don't think tasks in a subcategory surface when you search for the parent category

I do not understand. Could you explain?

- Summary field in task list truncates with ellipses (...) a bit too soon for my taste, for example: "Balloon Pop: Implement dynamic "Full game is more fun" ..."

Well, this could be handled by CSS only to adapt to different screen sizes .. (using @media )

The current display limit of 55 for the task summary in the task list is set in scripts/index.php

 

- Some reactions on tags (I realize the are WIP, and the below comments may already be addressed)

-- Background color visually intrusive in tasklist

Is it good or bad? You can set CSS class or a background color in the tag configuration areas (global and project)

-- Would want a separate column in task list for visual balance

Maybe. Appending to the task title gives better overall text distribution for single line table layout.

-- Don't appear to be searchable

The search string now also searches the tag names.

- I'd like to know how to change and set keyboard shortcuts. In particular, in a task the shortcut for editing is alt+shift+e, which feels cumbersome compared to some single-key shortcuts. Also, I'd like a shortcut to go from a task back to the task list.

They are currently hard coded into the sources.

The 'u' key was not documented, right.