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I've contributed some code to Phabricator, happy to answer any questions about why that code is so bad. Phabricator is primarily aimed at teams with multiple a

I've contributed some code to Phabricator, happy to answer any questions about why that code is so bad. Phabricator is primarily aimed at teams with multiple approximately-full-time engineers working on projects together, and focuses more on scaling up to thousands of engineers than scaling down to personal projects. It may be a poor fit for your needs if you're looking to move very small projects away from GitHub following the acquisition by Microsoft.

lima 8y ago
Hah, Phabricator is what I point to when people say "it's impossible to write good software in PHP".
- 20after4 8y ago
  It's a very good example of well-written PHP code, indeed.
segmondy 8y ago
Really? I've used it for a few years now to host my very personal projects I don't feel like uploading to GitHub and bitbucket
- lima 8y ago
  For small projects where most outside contributions are "drive by PRs" by random people, Phabricator may not be the best choice due to its complexity. I hope they will add a "git push"-based workflow to accommodate this use case.
acidburnNSA 8y ago
Ha! Epriest is actually the primary Phabricator developer by my read of their webpage. Can you guys advertise more? I hear about Atlassian on NPR and my IT team has guys fully sold on their stuff but my team has been operating very cleanly off a Phabricator VM for years now. However IT keeps pushing me to go all Atlassian so they can "support it". I'm like, yo, git pull every few months to upgrade and keep the VM patched. They're like but Atlassian has conferences. What should I do?
- kridsdale1 8y ago
  Replace your IT team.
  - devhead 8y ago
    ...educate your IT team.
- rimliu 8y ago
  Go Atlassian. So much better.
  - devhead 8y ago
    I disagree, Atlassian products, IMHO, are notoriously full of pain points: speed, usability, lack of updates, old issues languish, lack of accountability, corporate greed, unwilling to add features that compete with "addons/plugins/etc". Supporting self hosted gets even more murky, documentation tends to be stale, updates tend to be in place and high availability is hit or miss.
- Izkata 8y ago
  Find out, in detail, why they want it. For us, Crucible was a significant improvement over Phabricator in terms of daily use. My team had been trialing it for several months, and upon demoing it to other teams and our managers, convinced them it was worth switching.
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systemshacker 8y ago
Make workboard columns queryable!
- davidcuddeback 8y ago
  "View as Query" is in the column's menu. https://secure.phabricator.com/D19366 https://secure.phabricator.com/D19366
traek 8y ago
For context, epriest (Evan Priestley) was the original author of Phabricator at Facebook and spun it out as its own company.

lima 8y ago

Hah, Phabricator is what I point to when people say "it's impossible to write good software in PHP".

20after4 8y ago
It's a very good example of well-written PHP code, indeed.

segmondy 8y ago

Really? I've used it for a few years now to host my very personal projects I don't feel like uploading to GitHub and bitbucket

lima 8y ago
For small projects where most outside contributions are "drive by PRs" by random people, Phabricator may not be the best choice due to its complexity. I hope they will add a "git push"-based workflow to accommodate this use case.

acidburnNSA 8y ago

Ha! Epriest is actually the primary Phabricator developer by my read of their webpage. Can you guys advertise more? I hear about Atlassian on NPR and my IT team has guys fully sold on their stuff but my team has been operating very cleanly off a Phabricator VM for years now. However IT keeps pushing me to go all Atlassian so they can "support it". I'm like, yo, git pull every few months to upgrade and keep the VM patched. They're like but Atlassian has conferences. What should I do?

kridsdale1 8y ago
Replace your IT team.
- devhead 8y ago
  ...educate your IT team.
rimliu 8y ago
Go Atlassian. So much better.
- devhead 8y ago
  I disagree, Atlassian products, IMHO, are notoriously full of pain points: speed, usability, lack of updates, old issues languish, lack of accountability, corporate greed, unwilling to add features that compete with "addons/plugins/etc". Supporting self hosted gets even more murky, documentation tends to be stale, updates tend to be in place and high availability is hit or miss.
Izkata 8y ago
Find out, in detail, why they want it. For us, Crucible was a significant improvement over Phabricator in terms of daily use. My team had been trialing it for several months, and upon demoing it to other teams and our managers, convinced them it was worth switching.

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systemshacker 8y ago

Make workboard columns queryable!

davidcuddeback 8y ago
"View as Query" is in the column's menu. https://secure.phabricator.com/D19366 https://secure.phabricator.com/D19366

traek 8y ago

For context, epriest (Evan Priestley) was the original author of Phabricator at Facebook and spun it out as its own company.