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KDE moved because Phabricator is practically abandoned and KDE can't take it over. Furthermore, all KDE development is based on git and Phabricator abstracts t
by bondia 6y ago
KDE moved because Phabricator is practically abandoned and KDE can't take it over.
Furthermore, all KDE development is based on git and Phabricator abstracts the versioning systems, making the naming of things weird. They require weird cli integration (arcanist) not to rely on git semantics.
Most contributors expect gitlab/github kind of workflows on the other hand. It's really not great to make newcomers learn how to use arc (which is really not that good and barely used elsewhere) when they can learn proper git commands that will be useful for them in many aspects of their professional life, or just reuse the knowledge if they're already familiar.
I understand whoever wrote the article didn't want to be complaining about Phabricator as much as talking about how good gitlab is.
- epriest 6y agoWhy do you believe Phabricator is practically abandoned?
- evilelectron 6y agoNot as per their git commit history https://github.com/phacility/phabricator https://github.com/phacility/phabricator
- 0xfaded 6y agoDid facebook stop using it internally? I'm personally in the phabricator camp, but if it lost the backing of facebook I'd be seeing the writing on the wall.
- epriest 6y agoFacebook has not provided any contributions or material support to the open source version of Phabricator since around 2012.