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Phabricator, Wikimedia’s new collaboration platform

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Re: Phabricator, Wikimedia’s new collaboration platform

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Post by Plugins24 »

rvernon wrote: post #48
tom9729 wrote: post #26

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Shopping around for these kinds of tools recently. Phabricator looks great, but the point you mentioned is a show stopper for me. I would love to see Phabricator have GH-style code review, even if it meant dropping support for non-DVCS. Arcanist is neat but I don't want to learn a proprietary CLI tool just to do code review. Atlassian is expensive and only supports GIT, but the UI for VCS is way better (as is the Jen…

If you want a nice interface, you should take a look at GitLab. It only supports Git, but it is free software and its user interface is the only one that, in my opinion, can compete with GitHub’s (it is more or less a free software clone of it).

I agree with that, GitLab realy looks nicer.

Re: Phabricator, Wikimedia’s new collaboration platform

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Post by jansh »

leonardinius wrote: post #53
adamors wrote: post #52

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I honestly don't know. We've been also using Jira but it doesn't cover all of Redmine's features.

Same here. I've been Jira user / Jira consultant for some time (around 3.x - 4.x versions). And I loved the tool then. I don't have the same sentiment any more and mostly find it bloated. At the moment I'm daily Redmine and YouTrack[1] user and find both of them much more superior. Personally I think YT is one of the most user friendly tools out there, but I also find it quite limited and lacking (especially in regar…

I agree that Redmine can be a bit hard to maintain at times which is why we created Planio[1] in case anyone's interested. (shameless plug ;-) )

[1] https://plan.io/redmine-hosting/

Re: Phabricator, Wikimedia’s new collaboration platform

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Post by syaz1 »

zaven wrote: post #61
GFischer wrote: post #37

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You weren't kidding, I like that kind of self-deprecating humor :)

Evan Priestley (main lead developer from the article) is hilarious. He's also responsible for this fantastic description http://www.javelinjs.com/

Can't tell if the hacked ribbon is serious or part of the joke...

Re: Phabricator, Wikimedia’s new collaboration platform

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Post by annnnd »

vaceletm wrote: post #70
annnnd wrote: post #67

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Looks nice! A hint though: I was looking for an open source tool and I didn't stumble across yours, so you might want to put some effort in SEO, presence on blogs,... I find the information on your download page ( https://www.tuleap.org/try-and-go ) a bit confusing. What do you charge for? I need to know that up-front before investing my time... There are many products which are "free" until you need some (basic) fun…

Thanks for the feedback, indeed we are not very know yet but we try to improve (I've heard this place is good at it :D). Tuleap is 100% libre and open source, you don't have to pay anything to use it. All the things you see on tuleap.org are immediatly available and usable without "freemium" or "open core" principle. My company (Enalean) does have a business around Tuleap but it's service (SLA, support & co) as well…

Thanks for the answer - I misunderstood completely. This is the text that confused me:

> There is no differences between an “evaluation” and an “enterprise” version. We want you to experience the full power of the Tuleap software. Just follow the instructions to install your instance.

The way I understood it there are two versions, "enterprise" and "evaluation", and there is no difference between them (well, except for probably price, support and maybe some other hidden goodies). So next thing I tried to find info on this "enterprise" version, and could find none. :)

I would suggest you word it a bit differently... Your answer is much better at conveying the business model than the current page.

Thanks for the info, will try it out. Good luck!

Re: Phabricator, Wikimedia’s new collaboration platform

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Post by vaceletm »

annnnd wrote: post #74
vaceletm wrote: post #70

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Thanks for the feedback, indeed we are not very know yet but we try to improve (I've heard this place is good at it :D). Tuleap is 100% libre and open source, you don't have to pay anything to use it. All the things you see on tuleap.org are immediatly available and usable without "freemium" or "open core" principle. My company (Enalean) does have a business around Tuleap but it's service (SLA, support & co) as well…

Thanks for the answer - I misunderstood completely. This is the text that confused me: > There is no differences between an “evaluation” and an “enterprise” version. We want you to experience the full power of the Tuleap software. Just follow the instructions to install your instance. The way I understood it there are two versions, "enterprise" and "evaluation", and there is no difference between them (well, except f…

Humm, interesting. Thanks for the proof read, we gonna rewrite that to avoid confusion.

Re: Phabricator, Wikimedia’s new collaboration platform

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Post by leonardinius »

jansh wrote: post #72
leonardinius wrote: post #53

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Same here. I've been Jira user / Jira consultant for some time (around 3.x - 4.x versions). And I loved the tool then. I don't have the same sentiment any more and mostly find it bloated. At the moment I'm daily Redmine and YouTrack[1] user and find both of them much more superior. Personally I think YT is one of the most user friendly tools out there, but I also find it quite limited and lacking (especially in regar…

I agree that Redmine can be a bit hard to maintain at times which is why we created Planio[1] in case anyone's interested. (shameless plug ;-) ) [1] https://plan.io/redmine-hosting/

We used to use your service in one point of time and I must say we loved it.

Actually, a colleague of mine was asking me what services I could recommend for his new venture and all I was able to come up at the time was:

- Want to manage it yourself? Use Redmine on DigitalOcean

- SaaS?, then Planio will get you covered.

Re: Phabricator, Wikimedia’s new collaboration platform

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Post by zaven »

syaz1 wrote: post #73
zaven wrote: post #61

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Evan Priestley (main lead developer from the article) is hilarious. He's also responsible for this fantastic description http://www.javelinjs.com/

Can't tell if the hacked ribbon is serious or part of the joke...

Part of the joke! He gives the backstory here http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-story-behind-Javelins-hilario...
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