Trello is enforcing more limits, could this be an opportunity for Focalboard? Official community fork? about focalboard HOT 5 OPEN

Related: #4875.

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As this seem to be just a question I'm asking one too:

Wouldn't it be much easier just to use Vikunja, since it's actively maintained?

Furthermore it already supports imports from Trello, Todoist and Microsoft To-Do amongst some other features that people are asking here for Focalboard.

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That's a great comment @alexanderadam -- I am not part of Focalboard team, I am not advocating that getting Focalboard development back up running is paramount. This is just one of options.

Still, Vikunja also lacks some features that I need (e.g. custom fields are discussed since 2021 and still are not part of the roadmap).
Also, its Trello import process is powerful but AFAIK lacks the mapping process between users, so importing a large board with 1000s cards will require a large amount of manual work to re-assign them. Or, again, deploy a self-hosted app and enhance it with custom scripts to map the users during the import.

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I went ahead and forked focalboard into a dedicated organization.
https://github.com/alexeyqu-focalboard/focalboard

For now I'll use it as a stub for forking further into projects I maintain.
It would be awesome if this gains some traction and/or endorsement from the Mattermost team and finally will be transformed into this "official community fork" where development happens.
If that happens, I'd be happy to transfer the ownership / discuss a more appropriate name / otherwise remove my direct affiliation from this organization.

Lmk at code-focalboard [at] lxqu [dot] dev if you want to contribute.
I don't have the capacity to become a full-time maintainer, but I would be sad seeing this project fade without proper community support.

Linking some issues where the current focalboard state is discussed: #4983, #4875.

cc @azigler since you saw this issue already I am tagging you one more time for visibility

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