How do I change from kanban to scrum in Taiga.IO? - taiga

I've just started using taiga to manage some personal projects and I created my first scrum project, but then I realised that the way I'm approaching this project is more suited to kanban.
How do I change between project types? I can't find a setting that says 'switch project types' anywhere.

There is no master 'switch'. Taiga seems to hold a view of your project that's agnostic to how you display it (separation of concern!). Enabling either view is done via modules.
Here's a picture:
Just enable the one you want.

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Best practice to duplicate/clone a project in Visual Studio?

I have a VS Project/Solution (.NET 6.0) that contains a ton of core functionality. WinForms, Classes, etc.
My intention is to copy/duplicate this project and customize it for each individual application (if you are curious, this is a project interacting with collaborative robots. While the core of the project will be similar across multiple robots, each individual robot will need its own tweaking (GUI, functionality, etc). I would like to keep these as individual projects and not just add new robots to the base project. I want to keep it to one project per robot. I have my reasons, from licensing to support.
My question is: what is the best practice way to copy/duplicate a project and rename it? These are the goals:
Keep the Base/Ref project intact so it can be used as a basis for new projects.
Be able to push each 'new' project to a new location/repo in GitHub.
Any thoughts are greatly appreciated!

Best Practice for Having a Base Project and Multiple Similar Sub-projects

I have been writing an E-shop project for a customer and now I have signed a new similar contract with another customer. I was wondering what would be the best practice to continue the first project while staring the second so that the reusability is at maximum?
One way would be to change the first project to read all menu items, slider pictures, ... from the database so that I can deliver the same project to both customers with different databases. The benefit of this approach is that I have to manage only one project, but it leads me to gradually write a CMS, which is a time-consuming task.
The other solution would be to use Git. For example, I would fork the base project into two different projects. If the functionality I am writing is the base one, then I would push it into the base project; otherwise, I push it into the appropriate forked project.
Which one is a better approach in your opinion? Or you guys have any better idea?
Cheers,
Habib
There are a few things that need to be considered.
First of all, This project as you said has the capability to be sold more. So, you must think about how much is possible to make it dynamic via Configuration files, Hooks & Plugins to make the modification to the functionalities of the project through that. I know you have considered this already.
Second, Using a Core Repository and different forks for customization. (It's a great idea but needs proper discipline, workflow and manpower to make sure everything is fine-tuned and works properly )
It's highly recommended to make your application cloud-native and provide proper UAT/QAT Environment for test before launching on the production, And also implementing Test cases to be checked within the Git and CI/CD pipelines in order to prevent issues in the merge process.
I'm not certain about what you want, but if you want to develop an enterprise project that contains many features such as wallet, tracking, payment,... I think you can implement each service as a microservice and integrate all of them.
About git, I think it's better just for handling the source code and you had better use git module for handling microservice and just using branches for developing process
I have finally found some solutions that I would like to share with you guys. Let's divide differences into 2 big categories of data differences and code differences:
Differences in data
If the database in each project is different (e.g., the product has some features in one project and some other features in another project), then the best solution is to use NoSQLs such as MongoDB. In the first place, NoSQLs are designated to support databases that don't have well-defined data structures, and you don't know what features you may add to each entity at present or in the future. It completely applies to my scenario that each shop may have a different data structure. However, since my project is based on Laravel and it does not have built-in support for MongoDB, I have decided to design some key-value tables that haven't been so bad so far.
Differences in the code
Regarding differences in the code, I would definitely suggest branches in Git and other functionalities provided by Git repositories such as Gitlab repository mirroring. Each feature has a different branch in my code, and I can provide each customer with different functionalities by merging those branches I want to deliver to the customer.
All in all, you may take as much business logic as you can into the database since changing it in the future is more straightforward. On the other hand, you'd better keep themes in the code because every customer likes a different theme, and changing them in the code is easier than taking them to the database.

When to build\use Multiple Projects within a Solution

i am a good but not so advanced .NET Developer. This is more of a Expert to juniors knowledge transfer request.
I was thinking, in Visual Studio you can Add projects inside a solution. Of-course these projects will carry different namespace.
My question is
Why to build a project inside a solution
When it is good\useful to build multiple project inside a solution.
I suppose you mean more than one project in a solution, right?
We use it mainly from a library perspective. You receive more than one assembly and in this way you can share or exchange only parts of you application. This is for example helpful if you have a bug in your application which touches only a part of your app. In this case you can fix and exchange only the bad assembly instead of the whole app.
It allows you to separate parts of an application. Your GUI, business logic, and data access can all be separate.
In addition, projects within a solution can reference each other with "project references". This ensures they all build with the same configuration: all Debug or all Release. Also, a projects can build when the projects they reference change.

Updating multiple projects using svn:externals

Overview
I am using VisualSVN in Visual Studio, VisualSVN Server on Windows, and of course, TortoiseSVN. I wanted to know what the best method of sharing multiple projects over multiple solutions was, and if there was a better method.
Layout
My Repository kind of looks like this (not their real names):
Library.Common
Library.Web
Library.DB
Library.CMS
Customer1.Site
Customer2.Site
Process
To create a new site that contains common projects:
Create Repository in SVN-Server, e.g. "Customer3.Site"
Create Web site using Visual Studio 2008, named "Customer3.Site", VisualSVN used to commit to the repository created in step (1).
Edit properties of Customer3.Site and specify the necessary projects as svn:externals, e.g. "Library.Common", "Library.DB", etc.
Perform an update, to get these external projects, and add them to my solution in Visual Studio, add the necessary references to the Customer3.Site web project and hit build.
So far so good.
The Problem
All this works fine, I am happy that if I have to modify any of the core Library projects I can do so right in the same environment and commit them to the repository. As more and more customer sites are built, I will then have to keep track of what I've done and remember to SVN Update and rebuild those sites which seems quite a long-winded task.
Is there a better way of doing this, a more best-practice solution? Am I breaking any fundamental SVN laws by doing it this way? I want to find a good solution that doesn't cost too much time and isn't overly complex either.
I've been facing a similar issue ... I am setting up a base install package for WordPress, something we would use to quickly get a site setup, it contains the core of wordpress + a set of baseline plugins, both third party and custom ones we've created. Everything pretty much comes from SVN.
Different plugins have different versions/tags and to setup an svn external pointing to a specific tagged version per project would be a nightmare ... only to then have to go into each and every project and do a property adjustment and then an update.
What going to be implementing is a vendor branch with specific versions as needed. All I should then have to do is update the client sites, since they will always be pointing to the latest versions (under my control in the vendor branches).
As to your problem, and also in my case: I would probably write a commit script to update all projects automatically when something in the vendor branch is updated.

Sync Services Client and Schema Xcode Project Structure

I've started work on a project that will be primarily acting as a Sync Services Client. Ideally, the project have two components: a custom schema bundle and a preference pane.
As a first step, I've created an Xcode project for the schema bundle. But now I found myself ready to start writing the code for the preference pane and the client, and I'm not sure what the best way is to integrate it with the project I already have.
What approaches have you found to work well in these kinds of situations?
The easiest way is probably to create a new Pref Pane project. That way you get all the benefits. After that, you can actually drag the project into your schema project and make it a dependent of your schema project. Whenever you build your main project (the schema project), if there are any changes in your pref pane project it will get rebuilt.

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