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Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

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Re: Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

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Post by ericbarrett »

ognarb wrote: post #48
lima wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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/

And upstream made it pretty clear that they weren't interested in contributors or building a community :( https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabcontrib/article/cont... > 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 c…

epriestly has a weird sense of humor. The "trials" were probably sending him a friendly email. (I worked at FB at the same time as him)

Re: Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

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Post by ognarb »

solarkraft wrote: post #35
iamcreasy wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think Blender and KDE uses Phabricator as well.

KDE has been in the process switching away (to Gitlab) for a while.

Yeah, we already switch to Gitlab for code review. But the task management utility in Phabricator are far superior to Gitlab, so it's a bit complicated to switch to Gitlab for now.

There has been three big reasons why we are trying to switch from phab to Gitlab:

* Upstream wasn't very interested in external contributions or hearing our suggestions

* arcanist was a real pita to use for new contributors. Switching to gitlab really increased the number of occasional contributors.

* Setting up CI with Phabricator to run on Diff (the Phabricator equivalent to merge request) was not easy.

Re: Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained

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Post by kemayo »

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.

Maybe Evan just got sick of it, or decided to get a different job which wouldn't allow a side-project like that. Hazards of a single-person company.

That said, as a single-person company, the listed support costs [1] were probably sufficient to pay him a reasonable salary assuming there were any paying hosting/support customers at all. (Which is why I jumped to "he wants to do something else" rather than "it's not making enough to survive".)

[1]: https://admin.phacility.com/book/phacility/article/support_p...

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

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Post by acidburnNSA »

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 :/.)

We evaluated https://gitea.com/ and really liked it.

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

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Post by quadrifoliate »

Phabricator-the-software is a really good tool for code reviews and lightweight task management.

It's used at my current workplace (self-hosted) for both. We aren't big enough to effectively take over maintenance – but I hope someone does. It would be a shame for it to be replaced by 10 other tools that reimplement the same features poorly.

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

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Post by MatmaRex »

ipsum2 wrote: post #49
abbe98 wrote: post #12

I always had a good experience with Phabricator, especially its customization/dashboards. Wikimedia still uses it[1]. [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/

It's a shame that Wikimedia couldn't donate money to Phabricator for it to stay alive, considering it raised ~$30mil in 2019.

Wikimedia Foundation has sponsored Phabricator development, e.g. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/9/sponsore...

My impression is that the developers (or perhaps the remaining single developer, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread) has lost interest in maintaining it, rather than been unable to continue.

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

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Post by jazzkingrt »

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 :/.)

I used reviewable.io at my last company, and now use phabricator. I actually still prefer reviewable, so give that a look.
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