Mattermost Boards

A self-hosted plugin for managing boards withing a Mattermost installation

Mattermost boards plugins is an open source, multilingual, self-hosted project management tool that's an alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.

Try Mattermost Boards Plugin

Access the latest releases of the mattermost boards plugin by downloading the mattermost-plugin-focalboard.tar.gz file from the releases in this repository: https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-plugin-boards/releases. After downloading and installing the plugin in the System Console, select the menu in the top left corner and select Boards.

Getting started

Clone mattermost into sibling directory.

You also want to have the environment variable MM_DEBUG"true" set, otherwise the plugin will be compiled for Linux, Windows, and Darwin ARM64 and x64 architecture every single time. Setting the MM_DEBUG to true makes the plugin compile and build only for the OS and architecture you are building on.

In your Mattermost configuration file, ensure that PluginSettings.EnableUploads is set to true, and FileSettings.MaxFileSize is set to a large enough value to accept the plugin bundle (eg 256000000).

Building the plugin

Run the following command in the plugin repository to prepare a compiled, distributable plugin ZIP file:

make dist

After a successful build, a .tar.gz file in the /dist folder will be created which can be uploaded to Mattermost. To avoid having to manually install your plugin, deploy your plugin using one of the following options.

Building in Dev Mode

Set the following environment variables to true before running make dist-

1. MM_DEBUG

Deploying with Local Mode

If your Mattermost server is running locally, you can enable local mode to streamline deploying your plugin. Edit your server configuration as follows:

{
    "ServiceSettings": {
        ...
        "EnableLocalMode": true,
        "LocalModeSocketLocation": "/var/tmp/mattermost_local.socket"
     }
}

and then deploy your plugin:

make deploy

If developing a plugin with a web app, watch for changes and deploy those automatically:

export MM_SERVICESETTINGS_SITEURL=http://localhost:8065
make watch-plugin

How to Release

To trigger a release, follow these steps:

1. For Patch Release: Run the following command:

   make patch
   

   This will release a patch change.

2. For Minor Release: Run the following command:

   make minor
   

   This will release a minor change.

3. For Major Release: Run the following command:

   make major
   

   This will release a major change.

4. For Patch Release Candidate (RC): Run the following command:

   make patch-rc
   

   This will release a patch release candidate.

5. For Minor Release Candidate (RC): Run the following command:

   make minor-rc
   

   This will release a minor release candidate.

6. For Major Release Candidate (RC): Run the following command:

   make major-rc
   

   This will release a major release candidate.

Unit testing

Before checking in commits, run make ci, which is similar to the .gitlab-ci.yml workflow and includes:

• Server unit tests: make server-test
• Web app ESLint: cd webapp; npm run check
• Web app unit tests: cd webapp; npm run test