I highly doubt the Projects feature would be brought back, even though I would really appreciate it, as with the Hub 3 upgrade, I did loose all the associations among my Deck cards, boards and files.
What I do want, what Iām advocating for, and what is apparently actually happening is for the NC team to improve processes.
And to debunk the miconception of the NC project as being a bunch of nerds volunteering on an owner-less piece of FOSS software. They are the providers of the German Federal Governmentās whole cloud infrastructure, as you can read in the FAQ on the website! Such an organization must be held to totally different standards - but one can only popularize this if the company isnāt kept being pictured as the former.
hey @mortee , as you know I value your feedback and as you know I am taking it internally, but I just wanted to add some feedback back so we can work more effectively together: maybe in the future in these type of threads you could phrase things in a positive or encouraging way. I promise to still try to act on the feedback where I can like Iām doing here, and it would help me a lot because it might even be easier for me to have the internal discussions since my colleagues wonāt be pissed off while reading the conversations here, which means I will have to do less politics on my side to get things moving. Apart from the fact that it would be the good thing to do to be a constructive and positive person it would also increase our chance of succeeding together.
@Daphne, I usually try to argue and reason, and not demean conversation partners. When thereās real dialogue, I always try to be respectful and constructive. I intend to keep it that way.
On the other hand, everyone needs to understand that the reaction will be adjusted to the action, and I donāt find it practical to ignore or downplay things. Iām really sorry if ceratin comments make team members āpissed offā; but then again, e.g. when a heavily used feature suddenly disappear, along with all data related to it, that pisses off affected users just as well. This is a two-way street.
Not to mention that in multiple instances, when I made relevant observations or suggestions, I was met with cynicism and dismissal. Only so that later down the line, things that I (and others) have pointed out turned out to be of such relevance that the team made specific effort and announcemets to address them. Itās sometimes not really easy to remain calm and pragmatic in such circumstances, especially after Iāve been proven right once, but the next time I encounter just the same dismissal.
All that said, my goal is definitely not to anger anyone or spread chaos, but to point out mistakes (especially when Iām heavily affected), and work towards preventing future ones, and maybe undoing some of them.
Communication issue: I do agree that such a decision as the cancellation of the Projects functionality should have been communicated in advance and much louder. I do notice that there are a lot of efforts to improve in this direction and I appreciate the work of @Daphne and in general of Nextcloud on this
OpenProject as a replacement: I think that the requirement of installing another system is a hefty toll for the same(?) functionality
decision on Projects: I honestly cannot understand it. I do know that I did not see the data on the usage of this functionality that some people has, yet I cannot understand how the related resources functionality could replace it. As an example think to the new Photos app. The decision to use āArtificial Intelligenceā is awesome and the new recognize functionality is impressive. Yet you can also create albums. This means that a good automatic categorization/association of your data is an added value, nonetheless you must have the possibility to categorize / associate them according to your conscious decisions that derive from needs that maybe cannot be extrapolated from information in the data.
In addition my impression has always been that the main obstacle to a full use of the Projects functionality has been a good UI to use it. I think that something like what described in the issue Integration of Projects and Teams into Dashboard #22897 would have boosted the Projects adoption
Iām not sure it does, which is why Iām curious whether it supports
Well said! Iād add further that the point of projects is that it was beginning to link together different Nextcloud apps, so far including Talk, Deck and Files. ā Can this sort of development and greater integration continue without projects? I hope so.
edit: the Openproject discussion is now split to a linked discussion topic so it can continue independent of this discussion; turns out it is a totally different beast offering different functionality, despite a similar sounding name. Feel free to continue the conversation of OpenProject here. Thanks!
hi everyone, I brought this issue up in the engineering leads call (including all team leads of engineering teams, Andy, Frank). I asked them for future feature deprecations to ensure communication takes place and if reasonable, to also provide a migration path.
I will also ask the developer of the OpenProject integration to have a look at this topic.
Is there any chance for the Projects feature to be resurrected? Apparently many of us think that itās been really useful, and only really lacked in good UI (and maybe support for more types of apps/resources).
Also, OpenProjects, which has been suggested as a potential replacement, seems to be not fitting, and as @wielinde, the managing engineer for the OpenProject-Nextcloud integration let us know here, its aim is definitely not to provide a replacement for Projects.
This is the reason this thread began, because of wonder in how more apps in the ecosystem could be used together through sharing menu and beyond. Any these earlier discussion points would be laudable goals if there is future interest in implementing.
Original discussion points for projects
How I personally saw projects was as an expansion of the underlying uses of Nextcloud (sharing, files and folders, and then more additional apps) finally coming together into a more cohesive whole. It is a wonderful dream.
I also noticed this and didnāt feel ready to give detailed thoughts on it. Still donāt because it is a bummer. My understanding is we should continue that discussion through openproject, but I also got the understanding that they are not focused on developing integrations into additional Nextcloud apps, such as Deck or Talk or even Sharing.
The idea [in opeproject] appears to build out group coordination in general, which is important and different from what we were previously mulling over in regards to interoperability within Nextcloud itself.
Perhaps related resources will expand to allow some level of integration between apps down the line, so that is also worth consideration, but so far it is functionally a way around having integration afaik.
Projects will probably not come back as developed by the core team, but it could absolutely come back as a community project as an app for example, if anyone is interested in developing this. I could ensure this person gets some high-level tips from a developer to go about it. It wonāt be easy but it is possible.
@rawtaz , I wonder what you mean by that. Others and myself have previously asked publicly what tools are recommended which can replace the Projects feature, but no viable alternative has been mentioned.
In this light, I wonder why itās hoped that it wouldnāt get revived by someone for the benefit of those who did make use of it (not like it would become mandatory or anything), as opposed to being improved in UX and function.
@just , I know. In my most recent comment I was specifically addressing @rawtaz , wondering why they would consider reviving Projects explicitely undesirable.
