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Gerrit is solid: https://www.gerritcodereview.com/
The UI is atrocious, unfortunately.
GitHub and others are frequently code browsing tools first, with code review coming second. "Code hosting has look like GitHub" is unfortunately a common myopia.
Phabricator (from the little I used it) seems closer to Gerrit than other code hosting.
Phabricator will hold a great place in my heart as software written by a developer for developers that is well thought out, dog-fooded to the max, and fun.
My hope is that it can be well stewarded by a company into continuity. I wish I had the time to do so.
In short, thank you Evan and all those in the community for many years of wonderful software development.
* keyboard shortcuts to navigate through the changes
* ability to add a comment to multiple lines of code
* ability to suggest changes inline
* comments are saved as I type them, so an accidental tab close saves my work
* comments are submitted in batches when I choose to, not one-by-one after saving each one. Its's sooo useful, because it often happens that I ask a question about some piece of code and upon further reading I find the answer, so I can delete the question before submitting all the comments and the author won't be bothered by it
If anyone knows of a feview tool with similiar set of features, please please let me know :)
When it comes to task management in Phab, I like how the tasks can be arranged in a dependency tree. We have our "todo" view set up so it only shows tasks without dependencies and sorted by prioroty, so the work on the project self-organizes
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.
As others have mentioned, this is a shame. I found the Phabricator review model much more flexible and easy to work with than GitHub and Github-clone workflows. It's basically the traditional ultra-scalable mailing-list + patches workflow, but with very nice tooling and UI on top. I'm going to miss it when I leave FB some day.
as an addon, I'd love to see more organizations try to tackle this problem without just lifting the flawed GitHub model.
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…
FB's phabricator went its own way long ago. I imagine this has exactly zero impact on their day to day. Put it this way: the last time I saw it, they still had the "clowncopterize" button. Try finding that anywhere else.
We've been using Phabricator for several years and just recently started to use Gitlab in parallel. One of the main reasons was Phabricator's confusing and esoteric use of "spaces" for access control that made it hard to include external developers on projects. On the other hand the Phabricator GUI is much less confusing than Gitlab.