Re:Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab
by jchook on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @04:02PM
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Phab has been great for my side projects.
- You can host Phabricator on a $5/mo VPS and have CPU to spare, whereas GitLab Ruby is a big hog that requires a $20/mo box minimum.
- Able to deploy + configure it within a few hours, even with fancy features like emails via mailgun, using pygmentize to highlight code, and observed + managed repos. Defaults are all reasonable and get you moving quickly. Haven't had to touch config since I set it up.
- The Kanban + stories + PR flow is wholly sufficient. Arcanist grows on you fast. It totally abstracts the PR workflow for most any VCS and can help enforce practices (e.g. reviews, sign-off, merging, etc). "Projects as tags" feels weird at first but ends up giving you fantastic cross-sectional views of your issues.
- You can host Phabricator on a $5/mo VPS and have CPU to spare, whereas GitLab Ruby is a big hog that requires a $20/mo box minimum.
- Able to deploy + configure it within a few hours, even with fancy features like emails via mailgun, using pygmentize to highlight code, and observed + managed repos. Defaults are all reasonable and get you moving quickly. Haven't had to touch config since I set it up.
- The Kanban + stories + PR flow is wholly sufficient. Arcanist grows on you fast. It totally abstracts the PR workflow for most any VCS and can help enforce practices (e.g. reviews, sign-off, merging, etc). "Projects as tags" feels weird at first but ends up giving you fantastic cross-sectional views of your issues.