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Phabricator is (IMHO) in a class of its own as a code review tool but the tasks stuff is nothing to write home about. If you folks end up doing an integration

Phabricator is (IMHO) in a class of its own as a code review tool but the tasks stuff is nothing to write home about. If you folks end up doing an integration my group would be excited to give it a try. Good luck with the venture!

kevsim 6y ago
Very cool! We tried Phabricator years and years ago but haven't had much experience since then. GitLab is next on our list, but then we'll see what comes after that. We've gotten a few BitBucket requests. Any idea how popular Phabricator is these days?
- Operyl 6y ago
  Not terribly too popular, but used by a few large companies still. We evaluated it for use at a non-profit I help run/volunteer with, but the task system was too subpar for our liking. Wikimedia uses it pretty heavily, though.
- benreesman 6y ago
  Phabricator is used by a few big names like FB and Uber, and at startups that splintered off from those places, so a good number of teams but nowhere in the GitHub PR range. It’s pretty opinionated around things like fewer bigger repos, rebase-by-default, trunk-only: basically the stuff that big shops use (because anything else is an NP-hard pain in the ass, literally, once you’re dealing with feature flags or A/B testing or bandits or any of the stuff that you need if you’ve got a consumer-facing product with a lot of users).
xyzzy_plugh 6y ago
> Phabricator is (IMHO) in a class of its own as a code review Yeah I'm gonna have to heavily disagree with this. Arc is hot garbage, by default decimates your local history, treats everything as mutable. Phabricator leaves so so much to be desired, I could rant for days. Gerrit is a much nicer review tool. Even Review Board is better.
- benreesman 6y ago
  I agree that open-source Arcanist is the weak link, but it’s mostly down to commands like ‘arc diff’ and ‘arc land’ having the wrong default flags. It’s an unforced error and hurts adoption, but the right incantations aren’t hard to alias. I’d be very interested in how Gerrit is better than Phabricator on the review side, I’ve used it a bit and formed the opposite opinion, but because I’m a Phabricator power user and a Gerrit novice it’s likely I formed a biased opinion.

kevsim 6y ago

Very cool! We tried Phabricator years and years ago but haven't had much experience since then. GitLab is next on our list, but then we'll see what comes after that. We've gotten a few BitBucket requests. Any idea how popular Phabricator is these days?

Operyl 6y ago
Not terribly too popular, but used by a few large companies still. We evaluated it for use at a non-profit I help run/volunteer with, but the task system was too subpar for our liking. Wikimedia uses it pretty heavily, though.
benreesman 6y ago
Phabricator is used by a few big names like FB and Uber, and at startups that splintered off from those places, so a good number of teams but nowhere in the GitHub PR range. It’s pretty opinionated around things like fewer bigger repos, rebase-by-default, trunk-only: basically the stuff that big shops use (because anything else is an NP-hard pain in the ass, literally, once you’re dealing with feature flags or A/B testing or bandits or any of the stuff that you need if you’ve got a consumer-facing product with a lot of users).

xyzzy_plugh 6y ago

> Phabricator is (IMHO) in a class of its own as a code review Yeah I'm gonna have to heavily disagree with this. Arc is hot garbage, by default decimates your local history, treats everything as mutable. Phabricator leaves so so much to be desired, I could rant for days. Gerrit is a much nicer review tool. Even Review Board is better.

benreesman 6y ago
I agree that open-source Arcanist is the weak link, but it’s mostly down to commands like ‘arc diff’ and ‘arc land’ having the wrong default flags. It’s an unforced error and hurts adoption, but the right incantations aren’t hard to alias. I’d be very interested in how Gerrit is better than Phabricator on the review side, I’ve used it a bit and formed the opposite opinion, but because I’m a Phabricator power user and a Gerrit novice it’s likely I formed a biased opinion.