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So this post has absolutely zero context.
Try to give it some, get mod bombed. So it goes.
To clarify: this applies not just to phabricator-dot-com, but Phabricator the software: https://github.com/phacility/phabricator/commit/9ceb66453501... This is unexpected. Many companies, among them as well-resourced as Facebook, use Phabricator. I wonder if it will be forked soon by some party interested in keeping it around. OTOH it looks like none such party exists, because the public sources have not been updated…
It's a bit of a mixed bag compared to other self-hostable applications. There are a lot of moving parts, and the initial setup requires 60 different unique databases. It has a handful of background daemon-like processes that occasionally get wedged.
But, overall, there are some really interesting pieces of architecture in it, it's a really big project, and it does a lot of things pretty well.
I'm sad but not surprised to see this news.
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Gerrit is solid: https://www.gerritcodereview.com/
Gerrit is good, if opinionated in ways that we have to put work into onboarding for. That said, it only covers a small subset of what Phabricator does -- it's missing the entire issue tracker part, most importantly.
> Pre-Commit Code Review
> Review others' code with Differential, because they can't be trusted.
> Shows code so you can look at it.
> Leave helpful comments and anecdotes.
> Challenge the intern's test plan.
> Gently place bad code back in the author's queue.
That's a shame, heard only good things about those tools. Shameless but timely plug: I'm building a much better code review tool for teams on GitHub. Check out https://codeapprove.com and if you're interested to hear more just email me (sam at habosa dot com).
Reviewable is another similar review improvement tool for GitHub: https://reviewable.io ...or just use Gerrit[1], which can do everything these do out of the box, and has a much nicer workflow than GitHub once you got over the learning curve. [1]: https://www.gerritcodereview.com
I've always enjoyed the Phabricator landing page, because it looks like a joke. > Pre-Commit Code Review > Review others' code with Differential, because they can't be trusted. > Shows code so you can look at it. > Leave helpful comments and anecdotes. > Challenge the intern's test plan. > Gently place bad code back in the author's queue.
> Written in PHP so literally anyone can contribute, even if they have no idea how to program.
To clarify: this applies not just to phabricator-dot-com, but Phabricator the software: https://github.com/phacility/phabricator/commit/9ceb66453501... This is unexpected. Many companies, among them as well-resourced as Facebook, use Phabricator. I wonder if it will be forked soon by some party interested in keeping it around. OTOH it looks like none such party exists, because the public sources have not been updated…
I think Blender and KDE uses Phabricator as well.
To clarify: this applies not just to phabricator-dot-com, but Phabricator the software: https://github.com/phacility/phabricator/commit/9ceb66453501... This is unexpected. Many companies, among them as well-resourced as Facebook, use Phabricator. I wonder if it will be forked soon by some party interested in keeping it around. OTOH it looks like none such party exists, because the public sources have not been updated…
> This is unexpected. They've been down to only one developer (Evan himself) for a while. Still sad :( https://secure.phabricator.com/differential/query/all/
> To contribute to the Phabricator upstream, you must first pass a series of ancient trials and be invited to register an account in the ancestral homeland of Phabricator, here on secure.phabricator.com. The nature and location of these trials is a closely guarded secret.
I always had a good experience with Phabricator, especially its customization/dashboards. Wikimedia still uses it[1]. [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/
I've always enjoyed the Phabricator landing page, because it looks like a joke. > Pre-Commit Code Review > Review others' code with Differential, because they can't be trusted. > Shows code so you can look at it. > Leave helpful comments and anecdotes. > Challenge the intern's test plan. > Gently place bad code back in the author's queue.
My personal favorite: > Written in PHP so literally anyone can contribute, even if they have no idea how to program.
> Facebook engineers rave about Phabricator, describing it with glowing terms like “okay” and “mandatory”