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Re: Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

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Post by kludgeoldfart » Sat, May 29, 2021, 10:25 PM UTC

Phuck

Re: Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

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Post by evilelectron » Sat, May 29, 2021, 10:25 PM UTC

Sad news indeed :(

Re: Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

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Post by ferdowsi » Sat, May 29, 2021, 10:27 PM UTC

Whoa. Really, really disappointed about this. The Phabricator approach to reviews and merges was incredibly impactful on a previous team. It encouraged discipline and an informative main branch that was always linked to reviews, and free of commits like "fixing lint errors" and "actually fix lint errors, for real". https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabflavor/article/recom...

The task management system isn't bad either, considering how weak Github's is and how bloated JIRA is.

Re: Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

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Post by JoshTriplett » Sat, May 29, 2021, 10:27 PM UTC

axk wrote: post #8

saurik wrote: post #7

Phabricator had seemed to be the only good product in this space when I had looked; what are people even using instead? (I guess they just put up with GitHub :/.)

Gerrit is solid: https://www.gerritcodereview.com/

Does it still desperately want you to squash all your patches, or does it do a good job of handling an ordered stack of patches these days?

Re: Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

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Post by woleium » Sat, May 29, 2021, 10:29 PM UTC

ZuLuuuuuu wrote: post #11

Is there a summary of why this product is not maintained anymore? From time to time I would hear about Phabricator, but I didn't know that the project was in trouble.

I'd guess it's not profitable for them?

Re: Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

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Post by lima » Sat, May 29, 2021, 10:29 PM UTC

JoshTriplett wrote: post #24

axk wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gerrit is solid: https://www.gerritcodereview.com/

Does it still desperately want you to squash all your patches, or does it do a good job of handling an ordered stack of patches these days?

It does an excellent job handling stacks! You may be mistaking it for Phabricator, which defaults to squashing.

Re: Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

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Post by woleium » Sat, May 29, 2021, 10:31 PM UTC

saurik wrote: post #7

Phabricator had seemed to be the only good product in this space when I had looked; what are people even using instead? (I guess they just put up with GitHub :/.)

gitlab is good and can still be self hosted

Re: Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

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Post by smitty1e » Sat, May 29, 2021, 10:33 PM UTC

Dylan16807 wrote: post #19

dmitriid wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So?

So this post has absolutely zero context.

Try to give it some, get mod bombed. So it goes.

Re: Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

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Post by Aeolun » Sat, May 29, 2021, 10:33 PM UTC

This post about shuttering operations is quite devoid of reasons. I can’t imagine customers would be happy about that.

Re: Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

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Post by geuis » Sat, May 29, 2021, 10:37 PM UTC

Phabricator is used at some very large companies like Pinterest. It’s easily the best general purpose tools of its kind I’ve used. I won’t be surprised if management gets picked up by someone soon.