splendorr/git2pdf

Print physical Kanban cards from your GitHub issues, and stick that sweet stuff on your office wall

by Pocketworks, a UK mobile apps and sales technology development company.

Git2Pdf

Print physical Kanban cards from your GitHub issues, and stick that sweet stuff on your office wall

Install

gem install git2pdf

Use

Single Repo

# E.g. for this repo: https://github.com/uranusjr/macdown/issues
$ git2pdf gen uranusjr/macdown -u tobinharris -p
$ open issues.pdf

More repos

$ git2pdf gen "uranusjr/macdown, pocketworks/git2rb" -u tobinharris -p
$ open issues.pdf

Alternative 1

$ git2pdf gen -u tobinharris -p xxx -r "my-project, come-cool-repo, another-repo" -o my-organisation
$ open issues.pdf

Alternative 2

$ git2pdf gen -u tobinharris -p xxx -r "pocketworks/my-project, pocketworks/come-cool-repo, pocketworks/another-repo"

Print from a specific label(s)

$ git2pdf gen -u tobinharris -p xxx -r "pocketworks/my-project, pocketworks/come-cool-repo, pocketworks/another-repo" -p "label1, label2"

Start printing from a specific issue number

$ git2pdf gen -u tobinharris -p xxx -r "pocketworks/my-project, pocketworks/come-cool-repo, pocketworks/another-repo" -f 120

TODO:

• Improve CLI syntax, it's a bit shite

Features

• Generates a PDF of GitHub issues, so you can print them out and stick em' on your kanban board or scrum board or whatever.
• Include multiple repositories
• Designed to use minimal printer ink

What's our workflow?

• We have a physical kanban board
• We get bored of duplicating your effort writing on index cards or post-it notes
• We manage all our features, business analysis, requirements and bugs in Github issues
• We tag our issues with a class of service such as Bug, Feature, Task.
• We use waffle.io for different swim lanes on Github, and mirror these on our physical card wall
• Every Monday we print out our cards to issues.pdf
• We open it in Mac Finder, hit Cmd-Shift-2 to bring up the thumbs. Then select and delete any cards we've already printed, or that we don't want on the wall right now
• We chose print, A4, select 9 pages per sheet, and landscape
• We print it, grab some scissors, chop up the pages, and pin the cards on the wall
• Bosh!

Contributing to github_issue_printer

• Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet.
• Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it.
• Fork the project.
• Start a feature/bugfix branch.
• Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution.
• Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2014 Tobin Harris. See LICENSE.txt for further details.