Kanban builder

A word of warning: this is as niche as it gets. Imagine the following scenario:

you want to share a Kanban board with your team
there's no Trello, Jira, Rally, Dashing, nothing
even if you're prepared to put up with a single user spreadsheet your users can't get to it easily

What you do have is a VCS, so you decide to use the one file you can manipulate easily: the one and only README.md.

Now if you find you'd like to drop a Git(Hub|Lab|NextCoolThing) flavoured Markdown table in there, you may find this Kanban builder useful.

Usage

$ python [relative/path/to/]kanban_builder.py [input.yml]

Arguments:
--rows=N: display no more than N rows (default is 20)
--help/-h: display this text

Sample YAML input

- 'To do':
  - A
  - B
  - C is longer than B
- 'Doing':
  - D
  - E 
  - F 
- 'Done':
  - G
  - H
  - I

Sample output

To do	Doing	Done
A	D	G
B	E	H
C is longer than B	F	I

Output source

|**To do**         |**Doing**|**Done**|
|:-----------------|:--------|:-------|
|A                 |D        |G       |
|B                 |E        |H       |
|C is longer than B|F        |I       |

Build

$ virtualenv ve
$ source ve/bin/activate
$ pip install pybuilder
$ pyb install_dependencies
$ pyb

Exceedingly rarely asked questions

Q: What have I gained?

A: Let's say you want to move 'C is longer than B' from 'To do' to 'Doing'. With kanban-builder you would open the input YAML in vi and type:

4Gddp:x

To achieve the same by editing the markdown source, you would need to jump into visual mode and:

cut out 'C is longer than B'
add a new row at the bottom of the table
shunt down 'D', 'E' and 'F'
insert 'C is longer than B' at the top of the Doing column
adjust the column widths
despair

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