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Glad I read this before we plunged into EE. It will please the Trello lovers.

lima 9y ago
Make sure you look at Phabricator, too. It's great and the dev team is highly professional. Has a Trello-like work board, good project management and - most importantly - a sane and highly optimized workflow that works very well for a number of large companies and open source projects. I'll just link to another comment of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13939608 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13939608 Happy to answer any questions! (give it a few hours though)
- chetanahuja 9y ago
  One of the biggest weaknesses of gitlab, that becomes glaring as you add more and more projects, is that a code repository and a project are considered one and the same thing. It's quite common to want two or more separate repositories for an actual development project (e.g. frontend/backend or client/server etc.). Of course gitlab's problems arise from the fact that their whole reason for existence is being an open-source copy of github. (And github is designed first and foremost as a public facing opensource management tool... which forces a lot of their product design choices). Does phabricator work on a different paradigm that's more conducive as an internal tool to manage dev projects for a single organization?
  - prh8 9y ago
    BTW, Gitlab is working on big improvements to organization wide features. This was discussed on here after their big release last month.
  - lima 9y ago
    Yes, that's exactly how Phabricator works. Issues, project management and repositories are fully decoupled. Instead of copying GitHub with all its flaws, Phabricator was built from scratch for the enterprise usecase.
iamdeedubs 9y ago
If this taints your decision to purchase software you may want to reevaluate how you procure software. We have been evaluating several tools and the vision Gitlab is demonstrating with their idea to production is near perfectly aligned. Once https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/10109 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/10109 lands it'll be an amazing place to host projects and specifically monorepos that produce multiple containers.

lima 9y ago

Make sure you look at Phabricator, too. It's great and the dev team is highly professional. Has a Trello-like work board, good project management and - most importantly - a sane and highly optimized workflow that works very well for a number of large companies and open source projects. I'll just link to another comment of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13939608 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13939608 Happy to answer any questions! (give it a few hours though)

chetanahuja 9y ago
One of the biggest weaknesses of gitlab, that becomes glaring as you add more and more projects, is that a code repository and a project are considered one and the same thing. It's quite common to want two or more separate repositories for an actual development project (e.g. frontend/backend or client/server etc.). Of course gitlab's problems arise from the fact that their whole reason for existence is being an open-source copy of github. (And github is designed first and foremost as a public facing opensource management tool... which forces a lot of their product design choices). Does phabricator work on a different paradigm that's more conducive as an internal tool to manage dev projects for a single organization?
- prh8 9y ago
  BTW, Gitlab is working on big improvements to organization wide features. This was discussed on here after their big release last month.
- lima 9y ago
  Yes, that's exactly how Phabricator works. Issues, project management and repositories are fully decoupled. Instead of copying GitHub with all its flaws, Phabricator was built from scratch for the enterprise usecase.

iamdeedubs 9y ago

If this taints your decision to purchase software you may want to reevaluate how you procure software. We have been evaluating several tools and the vision Gitlab is demonstrating with their idea to production is near perfectly aligned. Once https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/10109 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/10109 lands it'll be an amazing place to host projects and specifically monorepos that produce multiple containers.