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Re:Jira on premises end of life starts feb 2021 by ppezaris on Saturday November 07, 2020 @03:50PM (#25019177)
i talk to 10 dev teams a week. nobody seems to be using it, other than facebook of course.
Re:Jira on premises end of life starts feb 2021 by vhbit on Sunday November 08, 2020 @12:54AM (#25023423)
Well, happy users since around 2015 (?).

There is a catch though - we use it only as a code review platform. It always seemed to be focused on that part more than in any other. I'm not saying everything else is bad, it just a gut feeling that code review always got the maximum attention.

And another catch is that it seems they lost their momentum even in this area. I recall times when we waited for weekly status update to see if there is something we'd have as excuse for an upgrade. Now it's even not a weekly update and speed of development seems to be slow.

Re:Jira on premises end of life starts feb 2021 by xorcist on Saturday November 07, 2020 @04:12PM (#25019445)
The Wikimedia project and some other high profile projects use it.

I did a pretty thorough evaluation once which included Phrabricator, it came out very well, especially the work flow around code review. It wasn't chosen for unrelated reasons.

I don't know why it isn't more popular than it is. It seems to be very mature, certainly better than a lot of tools that organizations pay good money for.

Re:Jira on premises end of life starts feb 2021 by plorkyeran on Saturday November 07, 2020 @06:50PM (#25021066)
There's no one pushing phrabricator. No marketing means that most of the people picking a tool to use have never even heard of it, and it's not really something that a single developer can adopt and then champion internally.
Re:Jira on premises end of life starts feb 2021 by ComputerGuru on Saturday November 07, 2020 @05:12PM (#25020071)
FreeBSD is probably one of the most visible users of Phabricator.