Comment by hliyan
5 days ago
I think what the industry is missing is some sort of interoperability standard/format for task management. I say this as someone who has been jumping from task tracker to task tracker since the early 2000's -- Trac, Jira, Redmine, Github Tasks, Trello, ClickUp, Linear, and several tools I developed myself. In each case, we rediscover/reinvent/redefine the same things: tasks, subtasks, summaries, descriptions, due dates, statuses, comments, milestones, dependencies etc. If there was some interoperability standard for task trackers, the tool churn wouldn't feel so tedious.
Not exactly what you are after, but related. There is ForgeFed [0] as a standard for code forge federation. It is an extension of ActivityPub [1] social web protocol, and thus far includes all the basic elements to facilitate task management / kanban. The project is wholly volunteer-driven, and recently received NLnet support to mature the standard further. Recently the maintainers were asking for feedback to help improve the specs. Various forges such as Gitlab [2] and Forgejo [3] are adding support for ActivityPub and considering ForgeFed support too.
[0] https://forgefed.org/spec/
[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
[2] https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/11247
[3] https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation
Moving issues between some of those is possible:
https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug
Gitea has some one-time imports, but maybe not yet full mirroring of everything, I have not checked latest status.
https://about.gitea.com